The UK remains Abu Dhabi’s biggest international source market in terms of hotel guests, accounting for 140,393 guest arrivals in 2012.

In 2012 some 2,388,023 guests stayed in Abu Dhabi - beating the emirate’s performance in 2011 by 13 per cent.

UK guests accounted for 611,609 guest nights and stayed on average 4.36 nights placing the UK top of Abu Dhabi’s overseas source market league.