It is no secret that Saudi Arabia is one of the fastest-growing and most popular travel destinations today. In a bid to steer its primary revenue source away from petroleum, Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman is aggressively driving the kingdom towards his ambitious Vision 2030 initiative. This follows on his original 2016 national transformation plan to wean the economy away from “black gold” while modernising Saudi society in one fell swoop. The KPI? To increase non-oil GDP by a whopping 50%.
It is not every day that one gets to see a city practically emerge from the desert. If you feel so inclined, then a visit to Diriyah, just on the outskirts of the Saudi capital of Riyadh, needs to be organised post-haste
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