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10/1/25, 8:47 AM UAE Minister Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri: Unified GCC Tourist Visa Pilot Phase To Start In Q4 2025
According to executives, every GCC nation will be a beneficiary of this new visa, yet the UAE and Saudi
Arabia will have the highest number of tourists.
Al Marri reported that in 2024, the total hotel visitor count in the UAE will be 3.3 million visitors, of which 11 per
cent are GCC citizens.
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The top three destinations in terms of visitors were Saudi Arabia with 1.9 million visitors, Oman with 777,000
visitors, and Kuwait with 3,81,000 visitors, Bahrain with 12,3000 visitors, and Qatar with 93,000 visitors.
In a statement to Wam, the UAE minister said that by mid-September 2025, the number of commercial
licenses in the tourism, hospitality, aviation, air transport, aviation technologies, and digital tourism solutions in
the UAE had reached 39,546, or increased 275 percent since mid-September 2020.
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