Wednesday, December 25, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s leisure trade is driving a surge in customer numbers because the nation strives to achieve its bold aim of welcoming 150 million vacationers yearly by 2030.
The Basic Leisure Authority introduced final Friday that Riyadh Season 2024 has already drawn over 12 million guests since its launch on October 13, averaging round 174,000 attendees per day.
This yr’s attendance has already surpassed half of final yr’s complete of 20 million guests, which had a every day common of roughly 150,000.
Throughout a press convention, Chairman of the Basic Leisure Authority Turki Alalshikh shared that Riyadh Season 2024 options 14 leisure zones, 11 worldwide tournaments, and 100 exhibitions and festivals.
In September, the Worldwide Financial Fund (IMF) acknowledged Saudi Arabia’s tourism sector as a key driver of financial diversification. An IMF report highlighted the dominion’s achievement of exceeding its Imaginative and prescient 2030 aim of 100 million annual guests by 2023, seven years forward of schedule. Tourism revenues reached $36 billion in 2023, with web earnings from the sector growing by 38%. The tourism trade’s direct and oblique contribution to GDP rose to 11.5% in 2023 and is projected to develop to 16% by 2034.
