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DUBAI HOTELS MAINTAIN
VIBRANT GROWTH LEVELS
 90
% OCCUPANCIES IN DECEMBER 2005 & JANUARY
2006
BEACH PROPERTIES POST 96 %
OCCUPANCY IN DECEMBER 2005 - 8.2 % GROWTH OVER
CORRESPONDING MONTH IN 2004
DUBAI HOTELS AVERAGE OCCUPANY
DURING JANUARY 21-27 WAS 94.45 %
WORLD'S HIGHEST REVENUE PER
AVAILABLE HOTEL ROOM (REVPAR)
Dubai's booming hospitality
industry is maintaining its vibrant growth tempo
with the emirate's ever-expanding portfolio of
hotels and hotel apartments posting impressive room
occupancies since December 2005 after closing the
three quarters of the 2005 with the highest
occupancy rate of 86 % and world's highest revenue
per available hotel room (RevPar).
The Dubai Department of Tourism
and Commerce Marketing (DTCM) data revealed that
the average hotel room occupancy levels for the
months of December 2005 was 91.5 %&endash; up from
85.1 % compared with the corresponding month in
2004.
The average beach hotels
occupancy was 96 % for December 2005 as against 88
% in December 2004.
The DTCM Manager Media
Relations, Mr. Eyad Ali Abdul Rahman, said: "These
numbers confirm that Dubai continues its impressive
growth trends well into the year 2006. The
aggressive promotional and marketing agenda of the
department has been helping the Dubai hospitality
industry grow further and post impressive results.
This is a huge achievement for both the leisure and
business tourism segments and clearly reflects the
success of public-private sectors
partnership."
For the five-star hotels, the
average occupancy level for December 2005 was 95 %
as against 89 % recorded for the corresponding
month in 2004.
In the four-star properties
category, the December average room occupancy was
96 %&endash; up from 90 % posted for the same month
in 2004.
Three-star hotels too maintained
the robust growth through average occupancies 95 %
in December 2005, significant increase compared
with 88.5 % registered during the same period in
2004.
Dubai hotels and hotel
apartments reported the highest occupancy rate in
January-September 2005, competing and wresting the
initiative from other reputed leisure and tourist
destinations in the world.
Deloitte and Smith Travel
Research have jointly put Dubai on top with an 86
per cent hotel occupancy rate followed by New York
with 83 per cent and Singapore at 80 per
cent.
Mr. Eyad said the
hugely-inspiring performance by Dubai's hospitality
industry reconfirms emirate's emergence as a
year-round business and leisure destination for
visitors from almost every part of the
world.
Dubai hotels and hotel
apartments have also been ranked the first in the
world in terms of generating the highest revenue
per available room (RevPar) between January and
September 2005, followed by New York and Paris,
according to Global Lodging Review, a publication
of the Deloitte and Smith Travel
Research.
The premium travel research
publication highlighted that Dubai hotels' RevPAR
(which provides a measure of the revenue generated
by each available hotel room during the year) is
the highest at US $ 175.47 while New York comes
second with US $ 163.32 and Paris third with US $
169.53.
Dubai's hotels have shown a 43
per cent increase in average hotel daily room rates
between September 2004 and September 2005
(year-to-date statistics).
Dubai presently has 393 hotels
and hotel apartments with a total room capacity of
35,396, an increase of six per cent from
2004.
*Mohammed Abdul Mannan,
Executive, Media Relations
Email: mmannan@dubaitourism.ae
*Shilpi Pillai, Officer, Media Relations
Email: spillai@dubaitourism.ae
Dubai Department of Tourism and
Commerce Marketing
P.O. Box 594, Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Tel: +9714 2230000 Fax: +9714 2230022
Web sites
http://www.dubaitourism.ae
http://www.uae-pages.com/tourism/entering-dubai.html
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