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Bahrain tourist numbers up 10pc

DUBAI, October 20, 2016

Bahrain has reported a 10 per cent increase in the number of tourist arrivals in the past two years, with a majority of the visitors entering the kingdom through the King Fahad Causeway, said a report.

"In 2014, we had 8.6 million visitors to Bahrain from the causeway and in 2015 we had 9.6 million," BNA reported CEO of Bahrain Tourism and Exhibition Authority, Shaikh Khalid bin Humood Al Khalifa as saying.

"As for the Bahrain International Airport, in 2014 we had 1.7 million visitors to Bahrain and in 2015 there were 1.8 million. Also through cruise ships we witnessed an increase in the number of visitors to Bahrain," he said.

Bahrain recorded a total of 11.6 million visitors in 2015 and the BTEA is targeting to attract 15.8 million visitors to the kingdom by 2018, an increase of 36.2 per cent.

The kingdom has also witnessed a steady rise in hotel occupancy rates, which were at 45 per cent in 2013, before slowly climbing up to 50 per cent in 2014 and reaching 52 per cent in 2015.

Moreover, the current average expenditure of a tourist is BD120.6 and BTEA aims to increase it to BD136, which means an addition of BD16 in the next three years.

“We were able to get these statistics of tourism expenditure through a survey conducted in coordination with the E-Government and Informatics Authority. Every 40th car from the King Fahad Causeway and every 10th traveler at the Bahrain International Airport was surveyed," said Shaikh Khalid. - TradeArabia News Service




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