50 pc of Khareef visitors are from the Sultanate
There has been a drastic 28.70 per cent drop in the number of visitors to Salalah during the Khareef season in the period from June 21 till July 4, 2013 compared with figures for the same period last year, the latest report released by the National Centre for Statistics and information (NCSI) says. A whopping 98 per cent of the visitors were nationals and residents from the GCC countries, including Oman. Visitors from the Sultanate constituted almost 50 per cent of the total tourists during the reported period. The total number of tourists tanked to 22,356 from the 31,356 visitors logged during the same period last year, according to the report which attributes the decline mainly to the advent of Ramadhan coinciding with the Khareef. While visitors from the Sultanate went down 24.19 per cent from 14,695 last year to 11,114 this year, those from other GCC countries nosedived 41.41 per cent from 10,605 to 6,213.
— in Salalah, Zufar. There has been a drastic 28.70 per cent drop in the number of visitors to Salalah during the Khareef season in the period from June 21 till July 4, 2013 compared with figures for the same period last year, the latest report released by the National Centre for Statistics and information (NCSI) says. A whopping 98 per cent of the visitors were nationals and residents from the GCC countries, including Oman. Visitors from the Sultanate constituted almost 50 per cent of the total tourists during the reported period. The total number of tourists tanked to 22,356 from the 31,356 visitors logged during the same period last year, according to the report which attributes the decline mainly to the advent of Ramadhan coinciding with the Khareef. While visitors from the Sultanate went down 24.19 per cent from 14,695 last year to 11,114 this year, those from other GCC countries nosedived 41.41 per cent from 10,605 to 6,213.
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