Volume 8, Issue 4 (April 2021), Pages: 1-11

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: Tourism attraction sites: Boasting the booming tourism of Saudi Arabia

 Author(s): Ahmed Osman Ibrahim ¹, Ghazy Abdallah Baqawy ¹, Mohamed Ahmed Said Mohamed ^{1, 2,} *

 Affiliation(s):

 ¹Architectural Engineering Department, University of Ha’il, Ha’il, Saudi Arabia
 ²College of Architecture and Planning, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5118-5821

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.04.001

 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. 

 © 2021 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Tourism industry, Boasting, Booming, Attraction, Hail city

 Article History: Received 15 July 2020, Received in revised form 10 November 2020, Accepted 1 December 2020

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Ibrahim AO, Baqawy GA, and Mohamed MAS (2021). Tourism attraction sites: Boasting the booming tourism of Saudi Arabia. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(4): 1-11

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