Dubai's 2025 Was a Record Year: 19.59M Visitors; January 2026 Up 3%
A strong 2025 base is locked in, but Dubai's official visitor count now runs five months behind. Hold your rates and lean on hotel and STR reads until the February to July figures land.
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Dubai closed 2025 with 19.59 million international overnight visitors, a third consecutive record year and up 5% year over year (DET official data, full-year 2025). Demand is not the problem. Visibility is: DET has not yet published the February through July 2026 monthly figures, so the official visitor series now runs five months behind and operators pricing the second half of 2026 are working off hotel and STR reads instead.
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