Muscat International Airport’s new multi-million dollar terminal is set to open in 2014 and is expected to have the capacity to handle 12 million passengers per annum with the potential for a projected 48 million passengers upon completion of its long- term phased expansion programme.
News of the development came as the Arabian Travel Market (ATM) 2013 road show stopped in Muscat to meet exhibitors, including the Oman Ministry of Tourism and Oman Air, ahead of the main show in Dubai.
Also discussed at the event was the potential for new tourism hotspot Salalah, located in the south of the country as it prepares for one million passengers each year once it debuts its upgraded airport in 2014. Both Qatar Airways and Oman Air are launching new services from Salalah in 2013, with the airport recording a 23% rise in passenger traffic to 629,000 travellers in 2012 against 2011.
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Additionally, Alpen Capital Investment Bank’s 2012 GCC Hospitality Industry Report, released last October, details that tourist arrivals into Oman are expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 5.7%, between 2012 and 2022 and that the Oman Ministry of Tourism aims to increase the GDP contribution of tourism from 2% in 2011 to around 3.5% in 2015.
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