Tourists enjoy their meal at a restaurant in Dubai. Photo used for illustrative purpose.
Dubai welcomed 3.67 million overnight visitors in January-February 2024, with an increase of over 18 per cent year-on-year (YoY), figures released by Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) showed.
According to the DET’s Tourism Performance Report for January-February 2024, Dubai recorded 1.77 million international visitors in January, and 1.9 million in February.
Among the origin of visitors, Europe led the list for the January-February 2024 period with 773,000 tourists (21 per cent). South Asia came in second with 604,000 visitors (17 per cent) of the total, followed by Gulf Cooperation Council countries with 549,000 (15 per cent).
Coming in fourth, the number of tourists visiting Dubai from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Eastern Europe reached 530,000 (14 per cent), compared to 448,000…