The GCC countries received 68.1 million tourists, generated $ …

The data issued by the Statistical Center of Cooperation Council for the Arab countries of the Golf (GCC-Stat) showed that around 68.1 million international tourists until the end of 2023 showed the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with an increase in 42.8 percent compared to the figures recorded in 2019.

The data mentioned in the newsletter “Travel and Tourism in the Golf Cooperation Council Country Cooperation Council Land” have that GCC countries have achieved 52.9 percent of the first strategic goal in the joint tourism strategy (2023-2030 ) In terms of gradually, the number of incoming trips increases to 128.7 million tourists.

The total international tourism income in the GCC countries rose by 28.2 percent by the end of 2023 compared to the 2019 figures and achieved 110.4 billion US dollars. This contributed to achieving 58.7 percent of the second strategic goal, namely increasing international tourist expenditure to $ 188 billion.
The GCC-ATT data apparently state that the percentage of Intra-GCC tourism of overall international tourists issued 26.9 percent with a growth rate of 44.2 percent compared to the figures recorded in 2019.

The Asia-Pacific region made the largest proportion of tourist export markets in the GCC countries by 38 percent, followed by the Middle East with 25.1 percent, Europe with 22.9 percent, Africa with 8.8 percent and America with 4.3 per cent.

Tourism indicators are positive in the GCC countries in relation to the infrastructure. The data issued by the center show that in 2023 10,893 hotel facilities were recorded in the GCC countries, including 697 rooms. They also show that 5 of the GCC countries have exceeded the regional average in the air traffic infrastructure.

The travel and tourism sector contributed 10.8 percent to the Golf BIP, whereby an annual growth rate of 29.4 percent contributed to the figures registered in the previous year. The added value of the sector reached around 223.4 billion dollars by the end of 2023.

The total number of employees in the tourism sector in the GCC countries reached around 1.5 million people by the end of 2023, with a growth rate of 17 percent compared to 2019. With an annual growth rate of 15.5 percent for the years 2022 and 2023, GCC – Countries the regional indicator of human resources and the labor market in the global travel and tourism development index 2024.

Women made up 12.4 percent of workers in the tourism sector in the GCC countries and achieved an annual growth rate of 27.5 percent compared to the figures found in 2020. This underlines the efforts to enable women in this important sector.

The tourism sector improves ecological sustainability in the GCC countries. The percentage of natural reserves from the total area of ​​the GCC countries rose to 15.1 percent in 2023 and an annual growth rate of 39 percent in the period 2017 to 2023.

Regardless of this, the foreign trade report of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), published by the Statistic Center for the Council Cooperation for the Arab countries of the Golf (GCC-Stat), emphasized the significant position of the region in global trade.

The GCC took the sixth place in the sixth place in an index of the goods volume and corresponds to 3.4 percent of the global goods trade. The region’s trading volume reached 1.5 trillion dollars in 2023, which reflected a decline of 4.0 percent compared to 2022.
In 2023, the GCC also took third place in the Merchandise trading balance index in 2023 with a value of 163.7 billion US dollars compared to 381.3 billion US dollars in 2022, which achieved a decrease of 57.1 .

The GCC took fifth place in raw material exports worldwide and contributed 3.1 percent of the global total of global, with exports worth 0.8 trillion US global imports at a value of $ 0.7 trillion in 2023 Increase of 13.4 percent compared to the previous year.

The report also described that GCC trading with goods (without intra-trade) declined by 4.0 percent, which corresponds to $ 1,482.4 billion in 2023, compared to $ 1,482.4 billion in 2023 .

Raw material exports went back from USD 962.6 billion to $ 823.1 billion in 2023 – a decrease of $ 139.5 billion or $ 14.5 percent. However, raw material imports rose to $ 659.3 billion in 2023, which increased to an increase of $ 581.3 billion in 2022, which increased to an increase of $ 78.0 billion or $ 13.4.

In 2023, the Olexports of the GCC countries decreased by 20.5 percent to 525.5 billion US dollars compared to USD 661.1 billion in 2022.

With regard to a value of 150.4 billion US dollars with a difference of $ 147.6 billion.

China is also the most important trading partner of the GCC countries. With regard to the raw material export index, 19.2 percent of the total Golf raw material exports was imported to the global markets in 2023.

China took first place in the GCC countries in the GCC countries’ main trading partner. It exported 21.2 percent of the total goods import of the GCC in 2023 with a value of 139.6 billion US dollars compared to $ 126.0 billion in 2022, which increases an increase of 10.8 percent compared to the previous year recorded.

Wam