Ticket Sales Boom In Five Months As Travel Season Picks Up

When compared with the same period in 2021, when it was around 23 million dinars, Kuwait's sales of tourism and travel agencies than doubled, reaching approximately 112 million dinars.

There are 430 travel offices in Kuwait, according to sources who spoke to a local Arabic newspaper. They noted that the increase in sales is due to the tourism and travel industry's recovery, the lifting of travel restrictions that had been put in place at most international locations following the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the desire of citizens and residents to travel again after a protracted break.

According to the same sources, Kuwaitis most frequently go to Turkey, Dubai, and different European nations, whereas most locals spend their summer vacations in their home country.The sales in February 2022 climbed by about 5.5 times to 22 million dinars from 3.36 million dinars in the same month of 2021. Additionally, it increased by 3.2 times last May to 27.74 million compared to 6.59 million in the same month of 2021, and by 5.1 times in April to 24.27 million compared to 3.96 million.

Engineer Saad Al-Otaibi, the Director-General of Civil Aviation's spokesperson and the Deputy Director-General for Planning and Projects Affairs, claimed that the country's epidemiological situation and the lifting of international travel bans would result in a daily passenger volume that exceeded everyone's expectations in the summer of 2022 and return to pre-Corona levels.

Between June 1 and September 30, he said, there would be a projected flow of around 6 million passengers, evenly split between arrivals and departures. Al-Otaibi stated that around 43,000 flights will transfer this enormous number of travellers to various locations, with 22,000 outgoing flights and approximately 21,000 arriving flights.

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