Qatar Stopover breaks record

DOHA, Qatar, 10 February 2025: Discover Qatar, the destination management arm of Qatar Airways Group, welcomed 10,000 stopover visitors in a single month for the first time since the Qatar Stopover Programme’s relaunch in August 2021. 

In January 2025, the programme recorded more than 10,500 visitors, compared to 6,651 in January 2024. The number of visitors in the stopover programme increased by an impressive 165% from April 2024 to January 2025, compared to the same timeframe in the previous year.

Photo credit: Qatar Airways.

The programme has also driven a growth in hotel bookings, with over 100,000 room nights sold this year — doubling the figures from the previous year. Qatar Airways Holidays is driving this success as the largest contributor to the programme’s sales, delivering over a third of all bookings, and leveraging the marketing strength of Qatar Airways around the globe.

Stopovers are also proving popular with Qatar Airways frequent flyers. Twenty per cent of customers use the popular loyalty currency Avios to pay for their bookings, and logged-in Privilege Club members earn Avios and Qpoints with every transaction.

The growth of the Stopover programme has been attributed to a combination of financial support from Visit Qatar coupled with strong demand from key source markets, driven by strong marketing campaigns from the Qatar Airways teams in Doha and in outstations across the globe. Leading global source markets include the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. The stopover programme has also received significant support from the travel trade, with strong contributions coming from Australia, South Africa, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and New Zealand, showcasing its wide-ranging appeal to both leisure and business travellers.

About Stopover
Discover Qatar’s Stopover programme offers a range of packages designed for travellers transiting through Doha with layovers of 12 to 96 hours. The packages start from USD14 for standard hotels. 

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