Dubai: A record 4.875 million people stayed in Abu Dhabi’s 162 hotels and hotel apartments during 2017, a 9.8 per cent increase on 2016, the capital’s tourism authority said in a statement on Tuesday.

Figures released by the Department of Culture and Tourism–Abu Dhabi (DCT) for its hospitality sector reveal that the number of guests staying in the city of Abu Dhabi during the year rose by 10.3 per cent to 4,295,030 across its 131 hotels and hotel apartments, which provide 26,821 rooms.