The growth in the UAE's hotel industry in the nineties has been explosive, at both the upper and lower end, and capacity has more than quadrupled, thereby promoting tourism in the country, Emirates official news agency (WAM) reported Wednesday.
According to the report which was published by the Journal of the Emirates Industrial Bank (EIB), a supply and demand promotion have taken place simultaneously, without any serious bottlenecks in hotel capacity.
Luxury hotel accommodation has also mushroomed in the interiors also due to the growth in demand for vacation tourism, the report said.
The UAE had a total of 339 registered hotels as of 1998, of which 53 were classified as deluxe and 84 in the Class I category, the agency said, noting that there are 65 in the Class II and 137 hotels in the Class III category.
However the deluxe class accounts for 42 percent of the rooms capacity, followed by Class I hotels (32 percent) and only 15 percent accounted for by the Class III category, according to the EIB report, said WAM -- Albawaba.com
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