Opportunities in Oman’s Food & Hospitality Market
  Oman to get 2,000 hotel rooms in 2013
  IHG opens fourth Crowne Plaza in Oman
  Sultanate's first sugar refinery to come up in Sohar port area
  Karama Hypermarket to open fifth outlet
  The number of 3-, 4-, 5-star hotel rooms are expected to grow by about 5,000-6,000 by 2015. ( Cluttons )
  The percentage distribution of travel and tourism to the Sultanate’s GDP is expected to rise from 6.7% in 2009 to 9.9% by 2019. ( World Travel and Tourism Council )
  There will be a 38.7% increase in tourist arrivals to Oman, to 1.45 million, and a near doubling of tourism spending, to US$2.96 billion, by end-2017.
( BMI forecast )