The Middle East is one of the fastest growing tourist generating regions in the world, and Cleartrip showed that UAE citizens and residents loved to travel the most. the average number of trips per individual in the last six months recorded at 1.93. Bahrain followed in the close second with an average 1.83 trips per individual over the past half year, with Oman coming in third at 1.71 and Saudi Arabia and Kuwait tied in at 1.61 respectively.
Cleartrip is a popular travel website which showed in its Mena research for 2017 that the top destinations for Middle East travellers during the first half of the year was :-
- Manila, Philippines
- Cairo, Egypt
- Amman, Jordan
- Beirut, Lebanon
- Kathmandu, Nepal
Popular destination searches on the website over the last six months included:
- Da Nang, Vietnam
- Yerevan, Armenia
- Tbilisi, Georgia
- Baku, Azerbaijan
- Kathmandu, Nepal
- Alexandria, Egypt
- Iloilo, Philippines
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Cebu, Philippines.
