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Tuesday 26 Jan 2016 - 19:06 Makkah mean time-16-4-1437
Muscat, (IINA) - According to the UN World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Travel Barometer, Oman has been ranked the world’s 16th fastest growing tourism destinations, Times of Oman reported Sunday.
The Sultanate is the only Arab and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) country to make the list of top 17, it comes ahead of Romania and behind Columbia.
In 2005, the Sultanate saw about 891,000 tourists’ arrival, while in 2015, the number doubled to around 1.78 million visitors.
Notably, Oman still continues to attract tourists, despite the Middle East suffering in recent years due to the rise of the Arab Spring, break out of civil wars and emergence of terrorist organizations in the North,
According to the National Centre for Statistics and Information’s (NCSI) latest monthly bulletin report, 964,956 guests had checked into 3-5 star hotels by the end of October 2015 in Oman.
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