Saturday 20 / December / 2025
Muscat: Hotels rated between three and five stars in the Sultanate of Oman recorded a 10.3 percent increase in the number of guests by the end of October 2025, reaching 1,895,159 guests, compared to 1,717,538 guests during the same period in 2024.
Data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI) indicated positive growth across key hotel performance indicators. Total hotel revenues rose by 19.4 percent, reaching OMR222.149 million by the end of October 2025, compared to OMR186.098 million during the same period last year.
Occupancy rates in three- to five-star hotels also increased by 13.5 percent, reaching 53.6 percent by the end of October 2025, compared to 47.2 percent during the corresponding period in 2024.
In terms of guest distribution by nationality, visitors from Oceania recorded the highest growth rate, increasing by 40.5 percent to 34,441 guests. This was followed by guests from the Americas, which rose by 31.5 percent to 62,083 guests, while the number of European guests increased by 23.1 percent, reaching 483,574 guests.
Guests from African nationalities registered a growth of 18.7 percent, reaching 11,962 guests, while Asian nationalities saw a 9 percent increase, with guest numbers reaching 273,573.
At the local and regional levels, the number of Omani guests increased by 6.9 percent to reach 714,128 guests by the end of October 2025. Meanwhile, the number of guests from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries rose by 6.7 percent, totaling 181,610 guests.
Conversely, statistics indicated a 1.8 percent decline in the number of guests from other Arab nationalities, with their total reaching 84,268 guests by the end of October 2025.
