It’s a country that’s overlooked since UAE has skyscrapers or high rises while Oman doesn’t have that (since their focus is more on culture and maintaining the “old Arabia” look & vibe whilst being rich in their own way). I mean, you can look up travel content about the UAE and there’s tons of results while for Oman the amount of travel content is kind of sparse in comparison even though people do go there.
The opulence of the UAE lets a certain type of person overlook its human rights abuses and hostility towards women and queer people to view it as an appealing travel destination. It’s probably overlooked because without that opulence, Oman is just another dictatorship actively hostile to over half of the people who might travel there.
and the queer people who go the queer circuit parties hosted in there make it clear where they stand.