To attract a million tourists.. 7 different visas to enter and reside in Saudi Arabia

Today, the Saudi Ministry of Tourism announced 7 types of visas that achieve the Kingdom’s strategy for tourism, and the newly implemented steps to issue various visas and a list of eligible countries, in order to raise the contribution of the tourism sector to the GDP to more than 10%, provide one million additional job opportunities, and attract 100 million annual visits by 2030.

Transit visas

The list of visas included both transit visas: which allow individuals to pass through the Kingdom, and allow residence for a short period of no more than 12 hours, and transit visas are available within 48 hours and 96 hours, and are available to applicants of any nationality, using the Injaz platform for electronic services for visas.

Personal visit 

It included personal visit visas, which enable people who do not have a commercial or family capacity to apply for a visa to enter the Kingdom.

treatment visas

Among the types of visas in the Kingdom are treatment visas, which enable visa applicants to apply to visit the Kingdom for the purpose of treatment.

Umrah visas

Umrah visas come as one of the most important visas in the Kingdom, and enable beneficiaries from outside the Kingdom to submit an Umrah visa application and review the application, and allow Saudi missions abroad to issue Umrah visas received through the electronic path of Umrah.

commercial visit

Among the types of visas is the commercial visit, which enables companies or institutions inside the Kingdom to request a visit to one or more persons according to specific professional specifications that have commercial relations with the inviting company.

Residence visas

Residence visas allow the beneficiary to request the entry of his companions into the Kingdom, while work visit visas enable applicants to approve two categories of visits to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, either visits to individuals or visits to sectors and organizations.

Tourist visa

The tourist visa, which was launched in the last quarter of 2019, is considered one of the important visas, after the Kingdom began receiving visitors and tourists from outside the Kingdom with an entry visa valid for a full year, allowing them to reside inside the Kingdom for a maximum period of 90 continuous days, which in turn will work to communicate the history and heritage of the Kingdom. And its authentic Arab customs of different cultures and countries.

The Saudi Ministry of Tourism has presented a schedule of violations and the corresponding penalties for the tourism guide activity to the public to seek their opinions in order to guarantee the rights of dealers in the tourism market and raise the level of quality of services provided to tourists.

The Ministry specified the category of activity; These are the categories and types of licenses that are granted to the practitioner of the tourist guide activity, (specialized guide category, tourist route guide category, tourist site guide category).

It also identified many violations; Including the practice of tourist guide activity without obtaining a license from the Ministry, and a fine of 15,000 riyals was proposed, while the procedure was approved in the event of a repeat violation with a financial fine, warning, and up to closure. The violation of enabling others to use the license was determined by a financial fine of 15,000 riyals, and in the event of a repeat violation, a fine, warning, and up to closure.

And a violation of not providing tourist guide services unless its classification category is tourist site guidance - through a travel and tourism service provider licensed by the Ministry.

Violation prevents the inspector from performing his duties stipulated in the system and its regulations, and to cooperate with him and provide him with facilities. It is considered a violation, and a fine of 5,000 riyals has been approved, and it reaches closure in the event of a repeat violation.