Dubai hotels during 2024 .. the highest in 8 years

The hotel market in Dubai has registered during the past year 2024 the highest occupancy rates ever in eight years, despite the entry of additional 46.5 thousand hotel rooms to the service between 2017 and 2024, benefiting from the great growth recorded by the tourism sector in Dubai during the years. The past.

Dubai’s department of Economy and Tourism in Dubai showed that the general hotel occupancy rate, at the end of 2024, reached 78.2% for about 154 thousand hotel rooms, compared to a occupancy rate of 78% for about 107 thousand hotel rooms in 2017.

Occupancy rates

The hotel occupancy rate at the end of 2024 also exceeded in the years 2023 (77.4%), 2022 (72.9%), 2021 (66.8%), 2020 (54%), 2019 (75%) and 2018 (76%).

These strong results of hotel occupancy rates come, despite the entry of thousands of “holiday homes” to serve over recent years.

According to the “Economy and Tourism”, the number of hotel rooms available in Dubai, at the end of last December, reached about 154016 hotel rooms in 832 facilities compared to about 150,291 hotel rooms in 821 facilities in 2023, which makes Dubai clearly advance to main cities, Like New York, Bangkok, Paris and Singapore, according to the data of the STR Foundation specialized in Hotel research and consulting.

In turn, the number of hotel rooms in Dubai increased from about 107,000 hotel rooms in 2017 to about 154 thousand hotel rooms at the end of December 2024, an increase of 44%.

Standard occupancy

“The hotel market witnessed during the year 2024, unprecedented record, to reach high levels Hotel occupancy comes driven by a number of factors that made Dubai a favorite tourist destination for travelers from all over the world.

He added: «Besides recreational tourism, the major global events hosted by Dubai in 2024 contributed to increasing the demand for hotels, and the great diversity in the tourism product and the new tourism facilities contributed to making Dubai a destination for travelers wishing to combine entertainment and business.

He affirmed that this strong performance of the hotel market comes despite the entry of thousands of rooms to the market, as the city continued to diversify its experiences to include family, sports, cultural, and recreational tourism, pointing out that Dubai continues to work on a tourism strategy aimed at enhancing tourism and expanding the visitors’ base, By developing new projects.

For his part, the general manager of the “Tamani Marina” hotel, Walid Al -Awa, said: “Dubai continues to enhance its position as one of the most prominent international tourist destinations in 2024, achieving records in the flow rates of international tourists, while receiving more than 18.72 million international visitors, an increase of 9% Compared to 2023. ”

Al -Awa added: “Several new hotel projects that raised the number of hotel market capacity in the city have been opened, which allowed an increase in the capacity of various tourism groups.” He pointed out that Dubai witnessed in 2024 a significant increase in the flow of international tourists, thanks to a mixture of major global events , Tourist diversity, and tourist attractions.