{"id":264745,"date":"2019-12-19T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=264745"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:32:50","slug":"riyadh-season-festival-grosses-usd-270-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/riyadh-season-festival-grosses-usd-270-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Riyadh Season festival grosses USD 270 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Riyadh \u2013 Saudi Arabia\u2019s General Entertainment Authority grossed over SAR 1 billion (USD 270 million) from its ongoing Riyadh Season festival, chairman Turki Al Sheikh was quoted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Arab News<\/em><\/a> as saying this Thursday (19).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_264735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-264735\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1MB1PO.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-264735 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1MB1PO-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1MB1PO-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1MB1PO-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/000_1MB1PO.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-264735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">GEA chair Turki Al-Sheikh at friendly Brasil vs. Argentina soccer match played on November 15 as part of Riyadh Season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Featuring cultural, musical, sports, cuisine and entertainment attractions since October 11, the season was slated to end on December 15, but has been extended until January 31.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sheikh noted that indirect revenue, according to the Saudi e-payments system, exceeded SAR 4 billion so far. He also said the festival brought 10.3 million visitors to the capital and its surroundings and created 34,700 direct and 17,3000 indirect jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Al Sheikh also said that following this \u201cexceptional success,\u201d the challenge will be to match it again in the upcoming seasons in Sharqiah (eastern Saudi Arabia) and Jeddah (on the Red Sea coast).<\/p>\n<p>Riyadh Season is part of <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/arabia-saudita-muda-e-rapido\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Saudi Seasons<\/a>,\u00a0a string of 11 similar festivals across the country. The events are being held this year for the first time, in a bid to promote Saudi Arabia as a travel hub and provide entertainment to locals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264734\">Press Release<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-264735\">Fayez Nureldine\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Such was the revenue collected by the Saudi General Entertainment Authority during the event that featured myriad attractions in Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital since October 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":264734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3066],"tags":[11910,1901,6812,12728,9595,12689],"class_list":{"0":"post-264745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-society","8":"tag-arabia-saudita-en","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-musica-en","11":"tag-riyadh-season-en","12":"tag-saudi-arabia-en","13":"tag-saudi-seasons"},"wps_subtitle":"Such was the revenue collected by the Saudi General Entertainment Authority during the event that featured myriad attractions in Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital since October 11.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}