Where are 4 million Saudi tourists heading this summer in summer holiday?

The seventh edition of the Riyadh Exhibition for travel in 2015 witnessed the participation of more than 50 countries and 20 institutions of the travel and tourism sectors, where many countries, including the countries of East Asia, and Europe, in addition to the Middle East participated so as to attract the Saudi tourist who is ranked the first globally in terms of tourism spending.

The number of Saudi tourists is estimated annually by about 4 million tourists; go to about 70 countries for relatively long periods of time compared with other tourists, also the Saudis spend in those trips around 24 billion riyals, according to specialists' estimates.

The secretary of the Ministry of Tourism in the Kingdom of Bahrain Khalid Al Khalifa, said in an interview with "Arabia" Channel that: The exhibition is featured by collecting businessmen in the tourism sector with tourists directly unlike other exhibitions that were limited to business owners and operators guides for hotels and companies.

There were variety of participations either recreational, cultural and heritage tourism, but the most important was the medical tourism, where the State of the Czech offered health care places in it in addition to the health resorts in Slovakia and the German Physical Therapy, which had a share of the exhibition.

In turn, the director of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Tourism Sultan Al Mansouri, said that the body is trying to provide sophisticated tourist services to cope with the needs of all ages and in all sectors, as the Commission aims to meet the growing global demand for tourist services of various kinds.

For his part, Ahmed Ghawy a specialist in tourism information – said that about four million Saudi direct to tourism annually to about 70 countries in the world, saying that such a large number is accompanied with attracting products directed to Saudi tourists.

In general political situation and the events of the Arab Spring overshadow the destination of tourists, where tourist compass tended to Europe and East Asia, which made the Saudi tourist to choose his appropriate destination early to spend the next summer vacation.