Tourism Officials said that Cruise tourism in the UAE budding progressively as it welcomed over 582,000 cruise tourists in 2013 and the arrivals are estimated to cross 600,000 this year with
more ships sailing into the UAE waters.
Hamad bin Mejren, Executive Director of Business Tourism at Dubai Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), said in 2013 Dubai received 386,000 cruise tourists and it is aiming to attract more visitors through marketing schemes in India and China as the region is ever more becoming attractive winter cruise destination.
Hamad was declaring in Dubai at the publication of cruise firm Royal Caribbean International coming back to the Gulf in 2015-2016 winters. Royal Caribbean’s Splendour of the Seas is programmed to dock in its home port of Dubai followed by calls to Oman’s capital of Muscat and Khasab along with Abu Dhabi.
Leisure Products Development Manager at Abu Dhabi Tourism & Cultural Authority, Noura Al Dhaheri, said the capital received almost 196,000 cruise tourists through 11 companies in 2013. He expects Abu Dhabi to entertain more than 200,000 cruise tourists this year as more cruise liners dock in Abu Dhabi.
According to Khalid Al Zadjali, Director of Tourism Events at the Oman Ministry of Tourism, Oman expects number of visitors to grow 15-20 per cent in 2014 as extra ships sail in to Oman. Khalid said over 112 cruise vessels docked at Port Qaboos in Muscat in 2013 bringing in around 200,000 tourists.
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