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Tourism spending in Saudi Arabia in July and August of this year amounted to more than 47.1 billion riyals, exceeding those of the same period in 2018, which amounted to 43 billion riyals.
The report of the Tourism Information and Research Center of the National Authority for Tourism and Heritage revealed that the total expenditure on local tourism during the month of July 2019 amounted to 3, 4 billion riyals and 7.5 billion in August.
Inbound tourism expenditures amounted to 2.5 billion riyals in July and 33.7 billion in August this year.
The report said that tourists who came to the Kingdom in the last two months spent 57 million overnight stays, more than those spent by tourists during the same period of 2018, which represents 52.9 million nights.
Local tourists spent 48.2 million overnight stays in the last two months, compared with 46.8 in July and August 2018.
The number of out-of-state travelers in July and August fell to 4.4 million from 4.6 million in the previous two months, and spent about 16.4 billion riyals, down from 2018. which was 16.6 billion riyals.
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