With the participation of more than 500 national, Gulf and international companies and institutions, the Abha Shopping Festival will be launched in the middle of this Shawwal in the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Faisal bin Khalid bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Asir Region, and the organizing committee has prepared a special pavilion for productive families and is expected to provide more than 600 jobs in its 18th edition."

In the same context, the director of the festival administration, Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al-Jarallah

In the same context, the director of the festival management Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al-Jarallah, Al-Jarallah emphasized the role of young people in preparing 90% of the festival sites, stressing that the festival has become a milestone that won the trust of companies that continued to participate in all its sessions, Al-Jarallah said that the festival in its version this season includes consumer items, national products, five shopping halls, an amusement park, children amusement parks and circus events, indicating that the festival has allocated valuable financial prizes, in addition to the prizes offered by sponsors and companies participating in the festival.

Jarallah said that the festival has become an open economic gateway for national companies and institutions in Asir to present their offers during the duration of the festival, which receives thousands of visitors every season, whether from Asir residents or visitors to the city of Abha, pointing out that the city of Abha received the title of Arab Capital of Tourism for 2017 as the first city in the Kingdom came as a result of the efforts and constant follow-up by Prince Faisal bin Khaled in support of what he announced years ago when he said "Asir will be the first tourist destination in the Kingdom and a sustainable tourism area all year round," stressing that the festival works on this vision to provide more services that serve