{"id":1930,"date":"2009-12-05T16:46:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=1930"},"modified":"2009-12-05T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T14:47:34","slug":"saudi-arabia-top-tourist-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/saudi-arabia-top-tourist-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia becoming a top tourist destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A study on tourist arrivals in Saudi Arabia says the kingdom can expect 6% growth annually until 2013.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/saudi-arabia.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1931\" title=\"Saudi Arabia becoming a top tourist destination\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/saudi-arabia-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"Saudi Arabia becoming a top tourist destination\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a>Business Monitor International says Saudi Arabia currently attracts 12 million visitors a year. The 2009 numbers are similar to last year, but from next year some solid growth will kick in.<\/p>\n<p>Much of Saudi Arabia\u2019s tourism is linked to religious events with Mecca and Medina hosting millions of Muslims each year on pilgrimages. It is not the only driver however. &#8220;Business travel is also a growing area, given the country\u2019s position as the world\u2019s largest oil exporter, not to mention its other large industries such as defence,&#8221; the research company\u2019s report said.<\/p>\n<p>Commensurate with the growth in tourism traffic, Saudi Arabia will be home to a large number of new hotels, with the total of existing hotel rooms to increase by 40%, or 90,000 rooms, between now and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Outbound travel from the kingdom is also on the rise. &#8220;Despite efforts to keep more Saudis at home, we see the number of citizens travelling abroad increasing from an estimated 6.30 million in 2008 to a forecast 8.53 million in 2013,&#8221; Business Monitor International said.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on tourist arrivals in Saudi Arabia says the kingdom can expect 6% growth annually until 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}