UAE Tourism Sector Accessing $ 70.1BN GDP for records increase in 2024

The UAE has confirmed its role as an important player in the Global Tourism industry, achieving the recording results everywhere travel, hospitality and plane.
The sector has donated AED257.3BN ($ 70.1BN) to the National economy in 2024, representing 13 percent of GDP – an increase of 3.2 percent compared to pre-epidemic levels in 2019.
Abdullan Bin Touq Al Marri, Economic and Tourism Minister of Emirates Tourism, highlighted the elevated categories before the World Tourism May 27 September 27.
The growth of UAE tourism
He has expressed the launch of the tourism plan in UAE Tourism 2031 and Chairing Nasser Al Harais as the first workshop as the Secretary of the UN Travel for 2026-2029.
The UAE is also placed within the top 7 areas of international spending and receiving leading positions in the Aviation competitions, especially the quality of the airfront quality.
Visitors have shown this spray, and international tourists give AED217.3bn ($ 59.2bn) by 2024, 5.8 percent from 2023 and 30 percent.
Homework expenditure reached AED57.6BN ($ 15.7bn), an increase of 2.4 percent in 41% of 2019.
The money available at the hotel has been achieved by approximately AED45BN ($ 12.3bn) in 2024, has 78 percent – between the surface.
The country was held around 30.75m home hospitals, expanded by 9.5 percent from 28.08m in 2023, 77 percent of the national targets of 40M guests.
The pressure was imported in 2025, with more than 16 hospitals listed in the first part, an increase of 5.5 percent of H1 2024.
Fees that are available at hotels while at the same time reached AED26BN ($ 7.1BN), up 6.3 Percent. The UAE is valid for 1.243 hotels in more than 216,000 rooms, with 16 new buildings added by 2024.
Inquiry suggests tourist numbers can reach 33 million in 2025, with the discovery of 7 percent of the year.
Aviation remains a UAE’s Room of UAE Tourism. The passenger traffic with UAE Airports through 1BN between 2015 and 2024, with the aircraft motion above 6.4m.
International visitors grew from 15m in 2014 to 29m in 209m in 2025. In the first 2025 months, 102.9m passengers, 5.13 percent appear in the same time in 2024.

Infrastructure plant maintain speed. Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktom, Deputy President, Prime Minister of Dubai, recently agreed to the new terminal implants in the Al Maktoal Airport.
The amount of AED128BN ($ 34.8BN), the center is set to be the largest place in the world, having a total of 260m passengers.
Tourism from AED28.8BN ($ 7.8bn) in 2023 to AED32.2BN ($ 9.8BN ($ 9.8BN) around AED6.7bn (more than five programs and access to more than 1.2BN population.
The UAE is highly strengthening its common role by hosting the UAE African African Tourism Investim conference on 27 October 2025 in Dubai, as part of the future hospitality.
The event will bring together tourism ministers and officials from the 53 African nations, including the position of the country as a trusted partner at tourism investment.