Dubai Parks and Resorts records 5% increase in visitors in second quarter

DUBAI / WAM

Dubai Parks and Resorts on Monday announced that it has attracted 641,000 visits in Q2 2019, up from 612,000 in 2018, representing a growth of five percent.
In celebration of Philippines Independence Day, Dubai Parks and Resorts launched an exclusive bundle offer for Filipino residents in the UAE, providing access to all the parks, for non-stop entertainment during the four-day celebration from June 12-15. The promotion attracted over 92,000 visits, welcoming many first-time visitors to the destination.
For the first half of the year, visits were 1.40 million, marginally lower than the 1.46 million visits in the prior year with international visits comprising 40 percent of the total visitation. The Lapita Hotel reported a healthy increase in average occupancy to 63 percent in H1 2019, up from 55 percent in the same period last year.
On June 16, the third-party Rove at The Park Hotel became the second hotel to open its doors at Dubai Parksand Resorts. The 579-room hotel forms part of the company’s strategy to have more than 1,300 keys at the destination by the second half of 2020.
Mohamed Almulla, CEO and MD, DXB Entertainments, said, “The ability for international visitors to stay at our destination as part of a bundled hotel package deal is becoming increasingly important, as evidenced by the steady growth in occupancy at Lapita Hotel.”