the United Arab Emirates recorded a total of eleven million tourists in 2021, ranking 12th in the world in absolute terms. That smaller countries regularly perform lower in a comparison of the absolute number of guests, is obvious. By putting the tourist numbers in relation to the population of the United Arab Emirates, the result is much more comparable picture: With 1.2 tourists per resident, the United Arab Emirates ranked 31st in the world. In Western Asia, it ranked 3rd. In 2021, the United Arab Emirates generated around 34.44 billion US dollars in the tourism sector alone. This corresponds to 6.8 percent of its the gross domestic product and approximately 34 percent of all international tourism receipts in Western Asia.