Dubai welcomed 1.04m British tourists in first nine months of 2025
The figures mean Dubai received an average of 115,500 British visitors each month, or roughly 3,800 a day.
British tourists accounted for more than 36 percent of all visitors from Western Europe and 7.5 percent of Dubai’s total international arrivals, which reached 13.95 million between January and September.
Western Europe as a whole remained Dubai’s largest regional tourism source, sending 2.86 million visitors in the first nine months of the year, up from 2.5 million in the same period last year.
Dubai’s continued rise as a major tourism hub is supported by robust air connectivity. Emirates Airline alone operates more than 133 weekly flights to the United Kingdom, including:
Six daily A380 flights to London Heathrow
Three daily flights to London Gatwick
Two daily flights to London Stansted
Three daily flights to Manchester
Two daily flights to Birmingham, including one A380
Daily flights to Newcastle, Glasgow, and an A350 service to Edinburgh
In October, Emirates announced it would add six more weekly flights to Heathrow starting October 26, responding to record passenger demand and offering travelers greater flexibility during the busy end-of-year travel season
