Amlak Articles... Editor-in-Chief Abdulaziz Al-Issa writes: Changing the direction of the tourism compass

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Statistics and various programs indicate that the Kingdom targets during the current year 2022 about 70 million tourist visits, an increase of 8 million visits from last year when it reached 62 million visits, which puts an additional burden on the events and festivals offered in order to develop and promote domestic tourism which has started to reap its fruits as we witness the booms and leaps in the different seasons that have been organized in the Kingdom, which reached 11 seasons across the country, including Riyadh, Jeddah, the Eastern Province and Taif.

<This success and excellence did not come as a result of coincidence or short-term planning, but came as a result of effort, thought and cross-fertilization of ideas and experiences that led to supporting the cumulative efforts to develop the sector starting from the organizational and administrative aspects until tourism was granted a stand-alone ministry with a strategy that works side by side with other related entities, especially the General Entertainment Authority, this thoughtful attention by the leadership made the Kingdom a beacon receiving investments from all over the world until the Kingdom became the most important economic destination in the Middle East attracting vital capital, ranking first with projects worth 9.3 billion dollars in 2021, this great development in the economics of the sector made the contribution of tourism to GDP rise to 41.81 billion riyals during 2020, while the contribution of the distinctive activities of tourism amounted to about 27.8 billion riyals, in addition to the mega projects announced during the past years such as Qiddiya, Historic Diriyah, NEOM and other projects expected to change the direction of the global tourism compass towards the Kingdom, which is prepared to receive every new in the world of entertainment.

This thoughtful attention of the leadership has made the Kingdom a beacon to receive investments from the world. <This boom will be reflected in the coming years in the target cities, which requires the real estate sector to meet the requirements of tourism development, by developing and preparing existing hotel suites and working to increase their number, with specifications that meet the ambitions of the sector, in addition to commercial centers and malls and allocating hospitals to care for the health of visitors under the umbrella of medical tourism to complete the Kingdom's tourism system.