1. Tourism Vyalsaudih 
2. Tourism in Saudi Arabia from emerging sectors in the state, and is considered the most important pillars of religious tourism, being the birthplace of the Islamic religion makes the place a tourist attraction, where the mean of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet's Mosque millions of Muslims to perform the Hajj and Umrah. Become a tourism received increasing support from the Saudi government, represented in the General Authority for Tourism and Antiquities, which among its objectives the development and rehabilitation of tourist sites and heritage, and improving sector accommodation, travel agencies, tourist services, and the development of activities and events in the tourist sites, as well as the human resource development of tourism. The Authority is seeking to complete its mission towards transforming the tourism sector of the economy contributes to increasingly effective in GNP, and support the national economy. [1] 
3. Shares of the tourism sector of Saudi in the evolution of GDP by more than 7.2% in 2011, [2] and exceeded the proportion of employment of Saudis in which 26 per cent of the total workers in the tourism sector, totaling 670 thousand direct jobs, also contributed to this employment, including 9.1% of the total workforce in the private sector in the Kingdom. According to data from the World Tourism Organization, the share of Saudi Arabia from the number of tourist trips to the Middle East region has reached 32%. 
4. The year 2008 declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization for consideration stone site of Madain Saleh World Heritage site, and thus become the first site in Saudi Arabia to join the list of World Heritage Sites. In 2010 Dir'iya added to the list in 2014 were added to the list of historical Jeddah

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