The Most Number Of Tourists Visiting Dubai This Year Have Been From This Country…..Yet Again
The number of tourists visiting Dubai grows ridiculously high each year, it is the ultimate tourist destination for fun, frolic, partying and shopping.
According to Dubai’s tourism body, the number of international tourists visiting Dubai has reached 8.10 million in the first half of 2018 alone, in comparison to the 8.06 million that visited Dubai in the first half of 2017 last year.
This number has shown a consistent increase each year
#Dubai welcomed a record 8.10 million international overnight tourists during the first six months of 2018, representing a consistent increase on the same period last year, according to figures released by @dubaitourism https://t.co/uWleAvx16O pic.twitter.com/xGOflaBEcR
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) August 1, 2018
No prizes for guessing: Dubai’s top source market for tourists in the first half remained India…yet again
More than one million Indian guests visited Dubai, a number which has been up by 3 percent every year
.@FinancialXpress: India continued to be the top source market for tourism in #Dubai, with over one million travellers visiting the megapolis during the first half of 2018, a three per cent rise over the same period last year. pic.twitter.com/kM4K2cPLGY
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) August 1, 2018
Followed by Saudi Arabia, and the UK.
Interestingly, the number of Chinese and Russian tourists have also grown by 9 percent
Reuters: The number of Chinese and Russian visitors grew by 9 percent to 453,000 and 74 percent to 405,000, respectively in first half of 2018. #Dubai pic.twitter.com/QhOl3r7nQu
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) August 1, 2018
Looking at these numbers, Dubai’s aim to reach 20 million visitors by 2020 seems like a cakewalk.
