{"id":18657,"date":"2020-01-04T10:34:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T06:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2020-01-06T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T10:52:52","slug":"saudi-arabia-tourism-takes-off-with-china-uk-malaysia-united-states-and-canada-topping-the-list-of-new-arrivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/saudi-arabia-tourism-takes-off-with-china-uk-malaysia-united-states-and-canada-topping-the-list-of-new-arrivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Tourism Takes Off With China, UK, Malaysia, United States And Canada Topping The List Of New Arrivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

New YouGov research has identified a rise in tourism interest in\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0from around the world, with one in five tourists more likely to visit\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0for a vacation now than five years ago.<\/p>\n

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The YouGov research surveyed 9,521 people across the\u00a0USA,\u00a0China\u00a0and five key markets in\u00a0Europe, revealed a growing interest in visiting\u00a0Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

The data coincides with the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) revealing its top inbound source markets since\u00a0Saudi Arabia’s\u00a0opened its doors to international tourism.\u00a0 Since the launch of the new tourism visa in September, visitors from\u00a0China, UK,\u00a0Malaysia,\u00a0United States\u00a0and\u00a0Canada\u00a0have topped the list of new arrivals welcomed into\u00a0Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n

Saudi’s historic sites appear to be an important attraction for tourists to the Kingdom. Amongst those surveyed by YouGov, over one in five (22%) are keen to visit\u00a0Jeddah’s\u00a0historic old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u00a0 Meanwhile, another UNESCO site, previously only known to a few travellers, is gaining a following amongst Chinese millennials.\u00a0\u00a0Al Ula\u00a0now tops the list of destinations in the Arab world of a third of Chinese tourists under the age of 35.<\/p>\n

Italians top the list with 35% surveyed saying they would be more likely to visit\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0following the new visa launch. British tourists were 15% more likely just ahead of Americans at 14%.<\/p>\n

The research also points to new opportunities for multi destination tourism growth. Of all respondents 73% reported a preference to visit several destinations rather than stay in one location.<\/p>\n

Arab League Tourism Ministers Meeting<\/b><\/p>\n

The research is released as\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0takes on the presidency of the Arab League Tourism Ministers Meeting at the end of a historic year for the Kingdom. Tourism Ministers from across the Arab world met earlier this month for the 22nd<\/sup>\u00a0Annual Arab Tourism Ministers Meeting. During the meeting they discussed opportunities for regional-wide tourism offerings and unified strategies for sustainable growth of the sector to benefit local communities and the environment.<\/p>\n

His Excellency\u00a0Ahmad bin Aqil\u00a0Al Khatib Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) said:<\/p>\n

“This year marked the historic moment of\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0opening its doors to the world. We are welcoming more visitors and investors than ever before. To those thinking of visiting\u00a0Saudi Arabia in 2020, you won’t find a warmer welcome anywhere in the world.”<\/p>\n

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New YouGov research has identified a rise in tourism interest in\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0from around the world, with one in five tourists more likely to visit\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0for a vacation now than five years ago. The YouGov research surveyed 9,521 people across the\u00a0USA,\u00a0China\u00a0and five key markets in\u00a0Europe, revealed a growing interest in visiting\u00a0Saudi Arabia. The data coincides with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18658,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18701,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions\/18701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}