Saudi Arabia’s lodge sector recorded larger occupancy within the third quarter of 2025, alongside a pointy enhance within the variety of licensed tourism services, highlighting continued growth throughout the Kingdom’s hospitality trade.
Information launched by Common Authority for Statistics (GASTAT) reveals bettering lodge efficiency, rising employment and a quickly increasing base of tourism institutions in the course of the interval.
In keeping with the Tourism Institutions Statistics bulletin for Q3 2025, the lodge room occupancy price reached 49.1 per cent, a rise of two.9 share factors in comparison with the corresponding quarter of 2024, when occupancy stood at 46.1 per cent.
In distinction, the room occupancy price for serviced flats and different hospitality services reached 57.4 per cent throughout Q3 2025, down from 58.0 per cent in the identical interval of 2024, representing a lower of 0.6 share factors.
The bulletin confirmed that the full variety of licensed tourism hospitality services in Saudi Arabia reached 5,622 institutions throughout Q3 2025.
This represents a rise of 40.6 per cent in comparison with the corresponding quarter of 2024, when the full stood at 3,998 institutions.
Serviced flats and different hospitality services accounted for 52.6 per cent of the full, with 2,955 institutions, whereas accommodations numbered 2,667, representing 47.4 per cent of all licensed tourism hospitality services in the course of the quarter.
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The outcomes indicated that the common size of keep for lodge friends was roughly 4.1 nights in Q3 2025, marking a 1 per cent lower from the corresponding quarter of 2024, when the common keep was 4.2 nights.
For friends staying in serviced flats and different hospitality services, the common size of keep reached about 2.1 nights, a slight lower of 0.2 per cent in comparison with Q3 2024.
The bulletin additional reported that the full variety of employees in tourism actions reached roughly 1,009,691 throughout Q3 2025.
This represents a rise of 6.4 per cent in comparison with the corresponding quarter of 2024, when the workforce stood at 948,629.
Saudi nationals accounted for 245,171 employees, representing 24.3 per cent of the full workforce, whereas non-Saudis numbered 764,520, accounting for 75.7 per cent.
By way of gender distribution, male employees in tourism actions reached 875,658, representing 86.7 per cent of the full workforce. Feminine employment stood at 134,033 employees, with a participation price of 13.3 per cent throughout the identical interval.
GASTAT mentioned the Tourism Institutions Statistics for Q3 2025 are based mostly on a number of sources, together with administrative data, statistical surveys and secondary knowledge, to supply complete insights into tourism exercise throughout the Kingdom.
