Dubai’s tourism sector rallied strongly, steadily picking up pace through the first three months of 2018 in light of growing currency pressures as it continued to retain and grow share across global markets.
The city welcomed 4.7 million international overnight tourists from January-March 2018, posting a stable two per cent increase in traffic versus the same period last year.
According to a report release by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism), leading source markets continued to highlight their affinity for Dubai as the top three retained their positions versus 2017.
Recording an impressive seven per cent year-on-year increase to deliver 617,000 visitors, India helped level out the relatively stable second-placed KSA (-1 per cent) and the steeper decline in visitation from third-placed UK (-8 per cent). Russia ended the quarter in fourth place,…
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