The chart above displays all bookings that have been made over the past 21 days by their check-in week. Additionally, the same values for 2019 are included to provide pacing context for the entire market.
In the near term, average booking lead time for the Dubai market exceeds 2019, with more guests booking closer to their arrival dates in 2021, and at least 65% of bookings coming b2b email list within 10 days of arrival. At this same time in 2019, more guests were booking 5 weeks out. This is likely due to high post-covid travel demand and eased vaccination access.
The Dubai market is booking up over the next several weeks, with additional bumps in the beginning of October. We can see that this is a regular pattern compared to a “normal” year like 2019.
That being said, property managers that haven’t seen an increase in bookings for the second half of October this year need not worry as the market is pacing well in line with 2019 data.