{"id":1219,"date":"2017-11-23T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2017-11-23T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T09:50:08","slug":"ras-al-khaimah-sets-new-international-visitor-arrivals-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/ras-al-khaimah-sets-new-international-visitor-arrivals-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ras Al Khaimah Sets New International Visitor Arrivals Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ras Al Khaimah has notched up a new record for international visitor arrivals, with the first 10 months of this year seeing the emirate register a 12 per cent surge in overseas guests, compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>The emirate, which has been diversifying its tourism product into the adventure activity sector &#8211; leaving the destination within striking distance of its 900,000 target for this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInternational arrivals are showing the strongest growth with the emerging markets of the Czech Republic, Poland, India and Kazakhstan greatly contributing to this healthy performance,\u201d said Haitham Mattar, CEO, Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops and regulates the emirate\u2019s tourism infrastructure and initiates its domestic and overseas promotions is making the most of the emirate\u2019s natural assets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1220 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2.-October-Visitor-Numbers-Jebel-Jais.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1090\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2.-October-Visitor-Numbers-Jebel-Jais.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2.-October-Visitor-Numbers-Jebel-Jais-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2.-October-Visitor-Numbers-Jebel-Jais-768x419.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2.-October-Visitor-Numbers-Jebel-Jais-1024x558.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ras Al Khaimah has notched up a new record for international visitor arrivals, with the first 10 months of this year seeing the emirate register a 12 per cent surge in overseas guests, compared to the same period last year. The emirate, which has been diversifying its tourism product into the adventure activity sector &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1221,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/1221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}