Number of hotels and hotel apartments Dubai 2023

In 2023, the number of hotels in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was 625. The source revealed that there were 196 hotel apartment buildings with more than 26 thousand apartments in Dubai in the same year. 

Tourism in Dubai

Dubai, also considered the shopping capital of the Middle East, offers a blend of modern and Islamic culture. Tourism plays an important role in Dubai’s economy, and the government has been crafting successful strategies for attracting foreign monetary and tourists. Among the leading city destinations by tourism attractiveness worldwide, Dubai ranked second after Paris in 2021. The city's high-end lifestyle placed Dubai first among the leading cities in international visitor spending worldwide in 2018. Relative to the other emirates, Dubai also recorded the highest average daily rate of hotels in the country in 2022, at around 693 UAE dirhams.

Emirati hospitality

UAE is, by many measures, a leading touristic destination in the MENA region. The country welcomed about eight million tourists in 2021, ranking first among the Middle Eastern countries with the largest number of international tourist arrivals. The Emirate of Dubai first initialized openness to international tourism to establish a successful economy that would outlast oil reserves. Nowadays, all emirates have strategies in place that offer enticing opportunities for tourists. While both inbound and domestic tourism are important, inbound tourism usually plays a more crucial role in a country’s economy since it provides foreign capital. The absolute economic contribution of tourism in UAE was forecast to continue to grow, projected to reach approximately 62.8 billion U.S. dollars in 2028.