{"id":206804,"date":"2018-12-27T16:22:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-27T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=206804"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:25:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:25:11","slug":"abu-dhabi-and-dubai-receive-1-6-more-tourists-in-8-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/abu-dhabi-and-dubai-receive-1-6-more-tourists-in-8-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Dhabi and Dubai receive 1.6% more tourists in 8 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abu Dhabi \u2013 The number of tourists who visited Abu Dhabi <em>(picture above)<\/em> and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from January to August 2018 grew 1.6% compared to the same period in last year according to information released this Thursday (27) by the <em>Emirates News Agency (<a href=\"http:\/\/wam.ae\/en\/details\/1395302729385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAM<\/a>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Room occupancy rates increased by 4.2% over the same period, according to data from the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitdubai.com\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DTCM<\/a>) Dubai and the Abu Dhabi <a href=\"https:\/\/tcaabudhabi.ae\/en\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Department<\/a> of Culture &amp; Tourism.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_206800\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-206800\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dubailifestyle.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-206800\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dubailifestyle-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dubailifestyle-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/dubailifestyle.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-206800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Typical products for sale in Bur Dubai, central neighborhood in Dubai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Over the period, hotel prices decreased by 5.3% in Abu Dhabi and 5.5% in Dubai. According to WAM, this happened because of offers and discounts by hotels.<\/p>\n<p>The number of tourists from Russia increased by 64.8%, supported by the loosening of entry visa requirements, despite a plunge in the value of the Russian currency against the Emirati dirham.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the strengthening of the yuan and the euro against the dirham helped to increase the number of visitors from China by 11.6% and from Germany by 14.7%.<\/p>\n<p>The number of tourists from India increased by 2.3%, but the number of British, Egyptian, Pakistani and Filipino decreased.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-206799\">Artur Widak\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-206800\">Fraser Hall\/Robert Harding Premium\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Room occupancy rates also grew during the same period influenced by offers and discounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":206799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[202,139,26610,2160,433,2247,2650],"class_list":{"0":"post-206804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism","8":"tag-abu-dhabi","9":"tag-dubai","10":"tag-emirados-arabes-en-2","11":"tag-hotels","12":"tag-tourism","13":"tag-tourists","14":"tag-united-arab-emirates"},"wps_subtitle":"Room occupancy rates also grew during the same period influenced by offers and discounts.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}