Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — Minister of Tourism Ahmed Al-Khateeb said that Saudi Arabia will create as many as 250,000 jobs during its hosting of Expo 2030 in Riyadh. He also highlighted the importance of sustainable jobs that the Kingdom will generate and these include jobs related to 1,000 hotel rooms on the sidelines of the global exhibition.
The minister made the remarks while addressing a ministerial roundtable session titled “Accelerated Progress in the Labor Market,” during the first-ever Global Labor Market Conference (GLMC), which started at the King Abdulaziz International Convention Center in Riyadh on Wednesday.
Al-Khateeb said the launch of the National Tourism Strategy in 2019 aimed to increase gross domestic product (GDP) from this vital tourism sector from three percent to 10 percent by 2030, in terms of creation of one million additional jobs.
The minister drew attention to the Kingdom’s presidency of the Executive Council of the United Nations…