Hotel occupancy posted a growth of 10.8 per cent.

As many as 337,682 of hotel guests were Omanis, according to the NCSI, which indicated that 72,849 of hotel guests were GCC citizens (up by 28.7 percent), 250,151 were European citizens (an increase of 46.3 percent), 29,899 were Americans (up by 3.2 percent), 5,451 were citizens from African countries (41.3 percent up), while the number of hotel tenants from Asian countries increased by 54 percent to 141,007. The number of hotel tenants from Oceania countries surged by 252.2 percent to 21,834.