Tourism attraction sites: Boasting the booming tourism of Saudi Arabia

Abstract

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has great potentiality for the international tourism industry that remains predominantly under-developed. The Kingdom’s attempt to diversify its economic dependence on fossil fuels focusing on its tourism potentials by continuing to create and implement proactive steps to diversify from an oil-based economy which is already globally diminishing, making the tourism industry a very wise option, especially as supported by the political, economic and social will via The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) and this is what made the researchers look into how tourism contributes in this paradigm shift. This paper is shedding light on the tourism industry in different sites in the Hail region necessary to support the tourism industry in the Saudi Arabia Kingdom. This research is among the unique proofs that the Hail region is having diversified and various tourism attractions compared to the other Kingdom’s 12 regions. Ha’il region is one of the richest tourism attraction sites in the whole of the Kingdom. It has a somewhat milder climate than other Saudi regions due to its higher altitude. The paper is exploring and investigating Hails’ sites as well as adopting analytical descriptive and documentation of the invented sites that can support The Kingdom to help to succeed in boasting the booming tourism planning to become an excellent tourist destination and a tourist hotspot. This paper is concluded with the steps to be adopted to improve the tourism industry.