Dubai made steady progress in achieving its vision of attracting 20 million visitors by 2020, recording a 7.5 per cent increase in visitor numbers in 2015, figures released by Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) have shown.
Dubai attracted over 14.2 million overnight visitors in 2015, double the United Nations World Travel Organisation’s projected three to four per cent global travel growth for the same period.
The GCC region contributed the bulk of the visitor volumes, followed by Western Europe and South Asia. A total of 13.2 million tourists visited Dubai in 2014, representing a year-on-year increase of 8.2 per cent. Details