The number of licensed hotels by the Tourism Authority in Riyadh rose to 85 hotels with an increase of 40 per cent compared to what it was before more than two years, including 45 hotels of five-star, and 25 hotels of four-star, while the number of housing units furnished licensed in the Saudi market amounted to about thousand housing units and apartments.
The growth of the hotel sector in Riyadh by 40%According to the latest General Authority for Tourism and Antiquities in the Riyadh region branch of statistics, the total licenses issued by the branch for all tourism activities amounted to "tourist accommodation, and travel and tourism agencies, tourist guides, and organize trips," about 1643 license.
Where the license was submitted 500 agencies and offices of travel and tourism in the capital, home to more than 130 guides and tour operator internally and externally licensed and accredited, while the number of hotel rooms has reached to more than 22 thousand rooms.
And contributed to the new regulations introduced by the Tourism Authority of growth of hotel investments in Saudi Arabia are increasingly, and the entry of a large number of international hotel companies in the Saudi market after the establishment of the Authority to develop the hotel sector, and classification, and stimulate investment in it, and tighten controls it and impose justice to the consumer and investor alike.
Said Abdul Aziz Al-Hassan, Director General of the General Authority for Tourism and Antiquities in the Riyadh region in approximately a newspaper with "economic", that the capital is considered one of the most Saudi cities in the number of hotel rooms and hotel occupancy.
He pointed out in the context of his speech that Riyadh hotels characterized by high occupancy rate throughout the year of business tourism, both of visitors to the city from inside Saudi Arabia attending to review government departments, hospitals or local tourists, or external visitors who attend to participate in exhibitions, conferences and others.
This allows calculation official body branch in social networking sites, and extensive information on tourist accommodation and projects approved and licensed projects in Riyadh, can be found, in addition to tourist packages offered by tourist accommodation and other tourist facilities and installations.
