Cut-price deals from FlyDubai and Air Arabia will continue to enable the trippers to keep traveling expenditures under control.

With Dubai having turned up the only destination in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) witnessing substantial upsurge in tourist arrival in 2011, hoteliers and travelling agents enthused on laying hands on influx of high-spirited individuals and families through link that primarily consist of special discounts and incentive points.

According to a latest report by Ernst & Young, the room occupancy and revenue per available room (RevPAR) in Dubai climbed four and 4.5 per cent respectively last year.

Tourists are turning to the region for enjoying vacations and leisure trips mainly because the political situations in other locations of Middle East remained volatile, according to the experts observing the conditions closely.

“With unrest particularly in Egypt and North Africa last year, the UAE experienced an influx of tourism, boosting its status as a regional safe haven,” said Mark Walsh, Portfolio Director, Reed Travel Exhibitions in a press release issued by AMEinfo.

More than 8.2 million tourists landed in the region in 2011. The figure is just a precursor to positive trend in the tourism industry this year.

Business Monitor International (BMI) forecasts nine per cent increase to nine million heads for 2012.
The reasons are multiple. Cut-price deals from FlyDubai and Air Arabia will continue to enable the trippers to keep traveling expenditures under control.

In addition, “with Emirates and Etihad opening up at least ten more destinations between them this year, future tourism growth is assured,” Walsh added.

Alone in the first six months of last year, Dubai hotels received 4.6 million guests, up 10 per cent year over year.

The UAE government is serious to develop the region as shopping, entertainment, and cultural hub and to make this dream come true it is allocating sizeable budgets to expand and modernize hotel, aviation, entertainment, and personal care industries.

Spectacular buildings, extensive transportation infrastructure, and plush accommodations are popping up across the emirates and not only in Dubai.

Modern constructions are being carried out in all seven emirates including Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain. Total 21,238 hotel rooms across UAE are under construction, according to the STR Global, a leading info source of international hotel industry’s trends.

Experts said existing international oil prices encourage the government’s tourism initiatives.

It is said oil price of $100 per barrel has augured well for the oil-run economies of the gulf. Good oil income created the fiscal space needed to undertake the development projects.

The frightful recession hit in the belly of the jewel of the Middle East. The only nonoil emirate in the region, Dubai’s economy neared the verge of collapse with its prime growth-driving sectors including financial and auto affected adversely by debt crisis.

An estimate said over $550 billion worth of construction projects came to sudden stop while overnight insolvency because of retrenchments left 3,000 leased cars unattended at airports, store parking, etc. Dubai remained the only victim of the crisis transferred from abroad.

The things are getting normal. Tourism industry, the engine of its economy, is coming back on the track with numbers of tourists rising year on year.

Prospective events such as mega Arabian Travel Market (ATM) exhibition are preregistered popularly. ATM is schedules on April 30, 2010.

Over 2,000 visitors have registered for the show featuring informative session about traveling industry’s trend, latest technologies, new tourism ideas, etc.

Interestingly, Arabs rush to the foreign countries to spend their holidays since the region has warm weather while subzero temperature-hit foreigners flock in the region to enjoy outdoorsy.

According to the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), majority (58 per cent) of residents in Arab peninsula including Saudi Arabia and Kuwait enjoy holidays outside the region. The foreign visitors must outnumber the outflows from the peninsular population of 68 million.