It's part of broader efforts to diversity its economy away from oil, and interestingly comes at a time when tourism in the strict Wahhabi Islamic kingdom is no doubt the last thing on holidaymakers' minds, given the Sept. 14 attack on Aramco facilities, and given there's still a war raging across the southern border in Yemen.
Though part of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030 reform program to take the Saudi economy in a post-oil direction, we doubt there will be an influx of tourism anytime soon.
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