Dubai Is Officially Over The Pandemic, Tourism Hits New Record
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With the help of Russians in the first half, Brits in the second half, and Indians all the way through, Dubai scrapes its best year for tourism.
Dubai saw 17 million visitors in 2023, the emirate's best-ever year for tourism and the first year ahead of pre-pandemic numbers. The news was shared in a brief tweet by the city's crown prince, Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed.
The prince wrote: "The city is at the forefront of the global tourism sector, with one of the world's highest hotel occupancy rates."
Before Covid-19 struck, the emirate had set out to reach 20 million travelers by 2020, and it managed to hit 16.73 million for 2019. We don't
