{"id":534,"date":"2017-10-18T09:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T09:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=534"},"modified":"2017-10-18T09:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T09:44:47","slug":"ras-al-khaimah-on-course-for-900000-visitor-target-for-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/ras-al-khaimah-on-course-for-900000-visitor-target-for-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Ras Al Khaimah On Course For 900,000 Visitor Target For 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ras Al Khaimah is edging closer to its 900,000 visitor target for 2017 after producing record arrivals in the first nine months of this year \u2013 the January to September 2017 international arrivals reveal nine per cent growth on the same period in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The latest results released by Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority (RAKTDA), which develops and regulates the emirate\u2019s tourism infrastructure and initiates\u00a0its domestic and overseas promotions, show nine-month growth in key categories including arrivals, hotel occupancy, guest nights and length of stay.<\/p>\n<p>Visitor arrivals over the period reached 631,617, guest nights grew 12.4 per cent, occupancy rose 1.3 per cent to 69.2 per cent, while length of stay came in at 3.55 days \u2013 a growth of nine per cent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-535 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.-RAK-Q3-Visitor-Numbers-Historical-Dhayah-Fort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.-RAK-Q3-Visitor-Numbers-Historical-Dhayah-Fort.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.-RAK-Q3-Visitor-Numbers-Historical-Dhayah-Fort-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/1.-RAK-Q3-Visitor-Numbers-Historical-Dhayah-Fort-768x518.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ras Al Khaimah is edging closer to its 900,000 visitor target for 2017 after producing record arrivals in the first nine months of this year \u2013 the January to September 2017 international arrivals reveal nine per cent growth on the same period in 2016. The latest results released by Ras Al Khaimah Tourism Development Authority [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535,"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-534","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\/534","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=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}