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Qatar tourism sector grows 3.7 percent

24 Jan 2016

(MENAFN) Qatar Tourism Authority proclaimed that the nation delivered 2.93mn visitors a year earlier, a 3.7 percent compared to 2014.

Accordingly, the Qatari tourism sector increased in 2015 despite global events that had a major impact on the patterns for travel destinations worldwide.

In addition, the sector has been growing 11.5 percent yearly since 2010, while GCC visitors grew 16 percent year-on-year, and African nations were up 5 percent.

The most nationalities that visited Qatar were GCC nationals with 44 percent, while Indians came second with 13 percent of the whole, trailed by British, US and Egyptians.

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