10% increase in booking hotels in Mecca of Ramadan

Initial bookings recorded for housing pilgrims in hotels and furnished apartments in Makkah for the month of Ramadan next increase of 10 percent, compared to what it was during the past two years

According to the deputy chairman of the hotels and furnished apartments Chamber of Commerce in Makkah Khalil Abdul Rahman Bahadur, the initial bookings for the month of Ramadan, including the last ten days has now reached 60 percent, which represents an increase in booking rates in hotels is estimated at 10 percent for the period similar to last year

He explained that the current events in the Arab region in total, did not affect the movement of Umrah Activity of Arab countries, except Yemen, Syria, where bookings of the remaining Arab countries recorded a clear increase, particularly from the Maghreb countries and Egypt

And about the expected prices in Ramadan Umra season this year, he pointed out that the prices will be at the same levels they were in the Ramadan of last year, pointing out that the organization of foreign Umrah companies took advantage of reducing the number of pilgrims from abroad as a result of the expansion taking place in the Grand Mosque in three years and the existence of a surplus in the number of rooms, either in hotels or furnished apartments in Makkah and lobbied to get the lowest rates

He explained that the expansion project, the giant, which is nearing completion, has contributed to change the map of housing pilgrims and hotels in Makkah in recent years, where resorted many investors in the hotel sector and housing pilgrims to the establishment of new hotels giant new neighborhoods, especially in the west and north of Mecca, Due to the limited land available around the campus and the high price per square meter in which to more than a million and a half million riyals

He added that the developments in the housing pilgrims sector as a result of the demolition of many of the hotels near campus areas for the benefit of expansion projects led to the entry of new parties is, some in joint-stock companies, with about 20 percent of investors came out in the sector, particularly from operators who were run hotel, two or three

He expected to see the next ten years the biggest expansion in the map residential towers and hotels in the neighborhood on the Mecca Jeddah road, and by immigration, and the line ring and other areas, which were years ago is far from campus areas will not be accepted by many of the companies organizing Umrah pilgrimage missions Foreign