Saudi tourism sector and success story

<The amazing progress that the Kingdom is making in its economic sector was not random or a stroke of luck, but is the result of qualitative plans and programs, which came with Vision 2030 about seven years ago, and today this vision is achieving its goals and aspirations at a confident pace, witnessed by the world, and confirms to those who matter that the Kingdom decided to change for the better, and reshape its economy as it wishes, which has been achieved on the ground.
Because the vision relied solely on science, it was keen to anticipate the future and create several economic sectors that did not receive official attention in previous years, including the tourism sector, on which the vision bet, and today it won the bet, after all the achievements the sector has made in a few years.

Adoption of the sector strategy

<The Saudi tourism sector would not have achieved any significant progress if it had not adopted a strong strategy that made it start where others ended, indicating that the Saudi tourism sector studied well the experiences of other countries in developing their tourism sectors and how they advanced them and became one of the largest sectors supporting their economies, and the Kingdom wanted to surpass these countries through qualitative projects, with ideas similar to innovations, these projects, not the first of which is the Red Sea project, and not the last is Qiddiya, indicating that the Kingdom made its decision to be the leader in the tourism sector in the region.
Early on, the Kingdom realized that reviving the tourism sector requires the concerted efforts of several institutions, the first of which is the Ministry of Interior, which made it easy for tourists to obtain the necessary visas within a few minutes, and the Ministry of Culture, which was keen to activate programs to take advantage of historical and heritage sites and places to serve the tourism sector, realizing that there are many tourists looking for these sites and want to visit them, and the Ministry of Information had to market the tourism sector well by singing the glories of the Kingdom and its long history, which tells important periods of human history on the land of Arabia
On the other hand, the infrastructure was prepared to promote the tourism sector, including modern airports and roads, hotels and the organization of exceptional programs and events.

Developed tourism sector

Today I can affirm that in the Kingdom, we have a well-developed tourism sector that can meet the aspirations and the indicators achieved may indicate this, through the achievement of foreign tourism in the Kingdom achieving promising statistics by obtaining the 13th place in the index of the number of international tourists for the year 2022. And the 11th place in the international tourism revenue index for the same year, before achieving the second place globally in the growth rates of the number of international tourists for the first quarter of 2023, recording leaps, which I believe are qualitative, and indicate that the Kingdom is on the right path and achieving everything it has sought and planned for.
I say and repeat what I have already mentioned before, that Vision 2030 has proven its success and superiority on the ground, and this vision deserves to be internationalized, and to be the icon of progress for promising and aspiring countries to enhance their prosperity and progress, at the same time, I believe that the Saudi beekeeping story has a survival, and we will all remember it when the vision programs are completed and achieve all that it sought in 2030.

Hani Khashoggi

Saudi Tourism