Director General of the Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing in Dubai, Helal Saeed Al Marri, said on Sunday, said that bookings in the tourism sector in the emirate looks strong in the first quarter of the year, despite the fire, which broke out in a hotel on the eve of the new year.
The fire swept through the 63-storey tower of the title includes luxury residential apartments and hotel, is located in Dubai, close to the Burj Khalifa.
And picked up the media around the world Photos second major fire in the emirate and the scenes in 2015, but tourism attraction in Dubai not diminished, according to what he said Marri.
He said al-Marri "look prior bookings for the first quarter is strong, and we continue to focus on this growth," adding that the treatment "smooth and efficient for the event in a very busy time of the year" showed that people's safety always comes first.
And a central pillar of tourism to the economy of Dubai, which presents itself as a center for entertainment and conferences.
Marri said that the number of visitors for one night and jumped 7.5% in 2015 to 14.2 million while promoting the emirate's efforts to attract tourists from a wide range of carriers, driven by growth of Emirates and flydubai countries.
Asia accounted for the largest source of growth with an increase of 26% on an annual basis in the number of Indian visitors to more than 1.6 million visitors, for India it occupies the first place in terms of the number of arrivals to Dubai.
The number of visitors from the whole South Asia increased 21.7% on an annual basis, while the number of the rest of Asia rose 17.9%, with the continued increase in the number of Chinese tourists.
For 2016, Marri said that slowing economic growth in Asia are among the main challenges faced by the tourism sector in Dubai with currency fluctuations.
The cost of Dubai visit with the rise of the dollar to its highest level in years versus many currencies, where between the UAE and its currency, the dirham US currency.
It began this effect is already evident with the decline in the number of visitors from Russia and the former Soviet states and Eastern Europe and 22.5% in 2015 and damaged the Russian ruble as a result of Western sanctions, while the Central Asian countries suffer from the repercussions of the decline in oil prices.
Marri said that the Dubai focused on attracting families with the increase in number and in particular the Gulf countries, which formed a large part of the visitors reached 3.3 million visitors in 2015.
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