Higher spending on domestic tourism trips by more than 100% over the past decade, rising by the end of 2015 to more than 104 billion riyals, while the volume of spending 54 billion riyals in the year 2005 and 57 billion riyals in the year 2010. According to the Tourism Information and Research Center statistics (MAS), the General Authority for Tourism and National Heritage, the contribution of tourism to the GDP rose at the end of 2015 to more than $ 80 billion after it arrived in 2010 to more than 61 billion riyals and more than 36 billion riyals in 2005. the number of internal tourist trips in the past year 2015 58 553 million trips, down from more than 33 million trips in 2010 and distributed the purpose stakes of the visit local tourist trips on a number of targets, most notably: visiting friends and relatives, which accounted for approximately 32.5 per cent of the tour purposes, followed Umrah, which accounted for 26.5 per cent of the trips goals, followed by recreation and entertainment for the purpose of tourism and increase of 18.9 per cent.
Topped of Mecca (Makkah, Jeddah and Taif), the most visited tourist destinations, then the Medina area, the eastern region is, then the Riyadh area where accounted for 11 per cent of the total number of domestic tourist trips of 3.8 million trips in 2014.
The tourist establishments, which include tourist accommodation, food, entertainment, travel agencies and tour operators sector has numbered in the year 2015 (57.279) facility, an increase of more than 100% from the year 2005 that the number of tourist facilities in which to 28.949 facility, and 44, 365 in the year 2010.
The Ministry of Economy and Planning, represented by an agency the ministry for economic affairs, has been considered the tourism sector of the priorities of its national program to diversify sources of income and increase employment opportunities for the citizens, so considering that tourism development planning prime part of the economic and social development plan, which requires the involvement of all ministries and governmental and non-governmental bodies for the implementation of development policy tourist in all regions of the Kingdom.
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