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Saudi Arabia earned $16.5bn from pilgrims in 2012
- Saudi Arabia: Sunday, January 06 - 2013 at 05:18
Saudi economists have estimated the kingdom's revenues from Haj and Umrah services in 2012 at more than SR62bn ($16.5bn), up 10% from 2011 figures, Arab News has reported. Haj revenue accounted for 3% of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) last year, said professor of economics, Fahd Al-Andeejani. According to figures by the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, some six million foreign pilgrims performed Umrah in 2012.
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