Record month for Abu Dhabi hotels
Abu Dhabi recorded a 19% increase in visitors last month, welcoming 226,000 people.
Overall last month, the emirate’s hotels reported 714,577 guest nights, an increase of 26% year-on-year.
The UK remains the emirate’s second largest overseas market with 109,330 Britons checking into Abu Dhabi hotels in the first nine months of this year – a 10% increase on 2012.
British guests accounted for 518,571 guest nights – an increase of 21% year-on-year, with an average length of stay of 4.74 nights, again up 10% on the previous year.
In total, for the first nine months of this year, 1.9 million guests stayed in Abu Dhabi’s 148 hotels and hotel apartments – a 14% increase on 2012.
Average length of stay for the first nine months rose 10% to 3.13 nights while occupancy rose 8% to 68%.
Average room rate in Abu Dhabi in the first nine months of this year fell 2% and now comes in at £70.
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Lisa joined Travel Weekly nearly 25 years ago as technology reporter and then sailed around the world for a couple of years as cruise correspondent, before becoming deputy editor. Now freelance, Lisa writes for various print and web publications, edits Corporate Traveller’s client magazine, Gateway, and works on the acclaimed Remembering Wildlife series of photography books, which raise awareness of nature’s most at-risk species and helps to fund their protection.
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