Abu Dhabi recorded a 19% increase in visitors last month, welcoming 226,000 people.
Overall last month, the emirate’s hotels reported 714,577 guest nights, an increase of 26% year-on-year.
The UK remains the emirate’s second largest overseas market with 109,330 Britons checking into Abu Dhabi hotels in the first nine months of this year – a 10% increase on 2012.
British guests accounted for 518,571 guest nights – an increase of 21% year-on-year, with an average length of stay of 4.74 nights, again up 10% on the previous year.
In total, for the first nine months of this year, 1.9 million guests stayed in Abu Dhabi’s 148 hotels and hotel apartments – a 14% increase on 2012.
Average length of stay for the first nine months rose 10% to 3.13 nights while occupancy rose 8% to 68%.
Average room rate in Abu Dhabi in the first nine months of this year fell 2% and now comes in at £70.
