Dubai leads the ranking of the worlds highest hotel occupancy rate. In
2006 Dubai hotel occupancy rate was 86% which is highest ever in Dubai. In
1993, the city has 167 hotels with 9,383 rooms, while the number shot up to 272
hotels and doubled the number of rooms to 23,170 in 2002. In 2005 it increased
to 28,999 rooms. In 2008 the hotel rooms jumped to 43,419 with 6,105,813 hotel
guests with 70 percent occupancy rate. In 2009 the hotel rooms increased to
58,188 and in 2010 it jumped to 67,369 rooms an increase of 9,181 rooms in one
year due to the massive rise in visitor arrivals. Dubai hosted a record 10
million visitors in 2012, an increase 9.3 % from last year.
As of 2013, more than 32,686 hotel rooms has been planned,
including 17,162 hotel rooms under construction. Whereas 30 new hotels opened
in 2010.
In January, 2010 the occupancy rate takeoff at 81 percent,
the second highest ever for Dubai, however throughout the year the occupancy
rate was settled at 71 percent an increase of one percent from 2009. However,
the city’s hotels witnessed a decline of 4.2 per cent in revenue per available
room (RevPAR) reached $ 154 million in 2010.
Following are the figures according to The Department of
Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM):
• Number of
hotels in Dubai in September 2010 was 566, an increase of 7% from 530 in 2009.
• In 2012,
Hotel Revenues increased by 17.9% at AED 18.82 billion.
• In 2012,
Hotel Guests numbered to 9.96 million an increase of 9.5% compared with 9.1
million in 2011.
• Hotel
apartments occupancy rate increased from 67.2% in 2009 to 68.8% for 2010