DUBAI, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) -- The tourism sector of Abu Dhabi emirate, the largest of the seven emirates that make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE), registered exceptional growth in the first half of 2023, the official news agency WAM reported on Wednesday.

The hotels in the emirate, which accounts for 87 percent of the UAE's total land area, received 2.4 million visitors in the first half of this year, up by 34 percent from the same period last year, the WAM cited statistics from the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism as reporting.

The hotels alone reported revenues of more than 3 billion UAE dirhams (820 million U.S. dollars) during this period, registering a 26 percent rise from the previous year, said the WAM.

The average hotel occupancy rate was 70 percent, with visitors staying in hotels for 2.7 nights on average, it noted.

Over the same period, the number of passengers visiting Abu Dhabi airports grew by 67 percent year-on-year to 10,258,653 passengers, and the number of flights hit 67,835, up by 36 percent from 49,919 in the first half of 2022, the report added.

The UAE has implemented a slew of strategies and plans to develop the tourism sector, such as the UAE Tourism Strategy 2031, which intends to raise the tourism sector's revenue to 450 billion dirhams, attract tourism investments worth 100 billion dirhams, and welcome 40 million hotel guests by 2031. Enditem

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