Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia has achieved file progress in spending by worldwide guests, reaching SR49.4 billion throughout the first quarter of 2025. This determine represents 9.7 % progress in comparison with the identical interval in 2024, in accordance with journey merchandise knowledge within the stability of funds for the month of Could, printed by the Ministry of Tourism.
The Kingdom achieved a surplus within the journey merchandise of the stability of funds estimated at SR 26.8 billion throughout the interval, a progress fee of roughly 11.7 % in comparison with the identical interval in 2024.
The ministry defined that the numerous progress within the journey surplus within the stability of funds throughout the first quarter of 2025 is the results of the efforts made by the ministry and different parts of the Saudi tourism system to reinforce the tourism sector and its contribution to the expansion of the nationwide economic system. It additionally underscores the event witnessed by the tourism sector within the Kingdom.
This progress underscores the effectiveness of the efforts exerted by the tourism system to place the sector as a worldwide chief, via the applying of greatest tourism growth practices, the development of tourism providers and merchandise, and the continued cooperation with all authorities companies to assist the event of the tourism sector within the Kingdom and obtain the targets of Saudi Imaginative and prescient 2030.