{"id":4153,"date":"2023-12-13T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/arab-entrepreneurs-poised-for-growth-as-region-presents-huge-opportunities-yeu-president\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T19:26:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:26:46","slug":"arab-entrepreneurs-poised-for-growth-as-region-presents-huge-opportunities-yeu-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/arab-entrepreneurs-poised-for-growth-as-region-presents-huge-opportunities-yeu-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab entrepreneurs poised for growth as region presents huge opportunities: YEU president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nRIYADH: Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambitious growth plans for the tourism industry have started paying dividends, with the sector having generated 250,000 jobs since 2019, said a top government official.<\/p>\n<p>\nAddressing the Global Labor Market Conference, Saudi Tourism Minister Ahmed Al-Khateeb noted that the industry was well ahead on its track to contribute 10 percent of the gross domestic product by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\nAl-Khateeb disclosed that employment in the sector took off from 600,000 jobs in 2019 to 850,000 this year and is expected to touch 1.6 million by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe further outlined that by hosting EXPO&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/2425081\/business-economy\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH: Saudi Arabia\u2019s ambitious growth plans for the tourism industry have started paying dividends, with the sector having generated 250,000 jobs since 2019, said a top government official. Addressing the Global Labor Market Conference, Saudi Tourism Minister Ahmed Al-Khateeb noted that the industry was well ahead on its track to contribute 10 percent of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports","7":"category-sports-ar"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uaenewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}