Tourism spending, all-time high
Inbound and domestic tourist spending crossed SAR 300B ($81B) in 2025
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المؤشّر الرئيسي
Tourism spending, all-time high
SAR 300B
2025Inbound and domestic tourist spending crossed SAR 300B ($81B) in 2025
من بين الناشرين: Ministry of Tourism · Arab News
القصّة
قبل
Tourism was not a meaningful contributor to GDP before 2016 — religious pilgrimage aside.
المبادرة
A full tourism stack was built: Ministry, e-Visa, hospitality investment, marketing under Visit Saudi, and giga-projects designed to attract global visitors.
النتيجة
Tourism spending crossed SAR 300B in 2025 — the financial counterpart to the 122M visitor count. Saudi is now MENA's tourism revenue leader.
للمواطنين
Spending creates jobs in hospitality, transport, retail, and entertainment. The new sector employs hundreds of thousands of Saudis directly.
محطّات زمنيّة
2019
Saudi opens to global tourists (e-Visa)
2025
Tourism spending crosses SAR 300B
مكتبة الأدلّة · 2 مصدراً
مرتّبة بحسب التصنيف، الأحدث أوّلاً
الزوّار السياحيون
122 مليون زائر في 2025 — رقم قياسي
122M
18 million Umrah pilgrims welcomed from abroad
Up 214% since 2022 — and pilgrim satisfaction at 94%
18.03M
Religious tourism's economic footprint
Hajj and Umrah generate ~$12B/year — about 7% of GDP, ~20% of the non-oil economy
~7% GDP
Hajj 2025 pilgrims hosted
1.67 million pilgrims, from 171 countries
1.67M
المبادرة: Ministry of Tourism; Saudi Tourism Authority (Visit Saudi); e-Visa program; giga-project tourism (NEOM, AlUla, Red Sea, Diriyah). فئة الأثر على المواطن: Economic empowerment.