{"id":79767,"date":"2025-09-02T14:27:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/?p=79767"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:27:48","slug":"kids-drive-saudi-outbound-summer-travel-48-cross-border-spend-on-leisure-travel-135-rise-in-amusement-park-spend-visa-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/2025\/09\/02\/kids-drive-saudi-outbound-summer-travel-48-cross-border-spend-on-leisure-travel-135-rise-in-amusement-park-spend-visa-data-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Drive Saudi Outbound Summer Travel: 48% Cross-border Spend on Leisure Travel, 135% Rise in Amusement Park Spend, Visa Data Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"705\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Visa-Travel-Pulse-Summer-Holiday-Edition-KSA-English.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-79768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Visa-Travel-Pulse-Summer-Holiday-Edition-KSA-English.png?v=1756812424 705w, https:\/\/gulftech-news.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Visa-Travel-Pulse-Summer-Holiday-Edition-KSA-English-212x300.png?v=1756812424 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kids Drive Saudi Outbound Summer Travel: 48% Cross-border Spend on Leisure Travel, 135% Rise in Amusement Park Spend, Visa Data Reveals<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em><strong>Outbound leisure travel accounted for 48% of cross-border spend during school holidays, with 25% of travelers taking multiple trips<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><strong>Family travel nearly doubled this summer to 20% of outbound trips, with ticket spending up 69% and an average of $2,060 for families of 2\u20135 people<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em><strong>Children are shaping itineraries: amusement park spend surged 135%, entertainment averaged $135 per card, and toy spending rose 140%<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Visa\u2019s latest <em>Travel Pulse: Saudi Arabia \u2013 Summer Holidays Edition<\/em> highlights how family travel is taking center stage in Saudi\u2019 Arabia\u2019s outbound tourism landscape, with children increasingly influencing how and where families spend their holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outbound leisure travel accounted for <strong>48% of cross-border spend <\/strong>as Saudi residents took advantage of school holidays to combine visits to family abroad with international leisure trips. The study also found that <strong>25% of leisure travelers took multiple trips<\/strong> this summer, averaging 11 days per trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Family travel comes to the fore:<br><\/strong>Summer 2025 marked a strong increase in family travel, which accounted for <strong>20% of outbound trips<\/strong>, nearly double the RoY average of 13%. Ticketing spend grew <strong>69% compared to RoY<\/strong>, with families of two to five people spending an average of <strong>$2,060 on tickets alone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Top outbound destinations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manama remained the leading Gulf destination, with <strong>20% traveler share<\/strong>, followed by Dubai <strong>(13% traveler share).<\/strong> Cairo followed with <strong>9% of traveler share<\/strong>, alongside Istanbul (8%) and London (4%). Auckland, at 15,000 km away, was the farthest destination visited by Saudi travelers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kids Drive Saudi Outbound Summer Travel: 48% Cross-border Spend on Leisure Travel, 135% Rise in Amusement Park Spend, Visa Data Reveals Outbound leisure travel accounted for 48% of cross-border spend during school holidays, with 25% of travelers taking multiple trips Family travel nearly doubled this summer to 20% of outbound trips, with ticket spending up &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[702],"class_list":["post-79767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-visa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kids Drive Saudi Outbound Summer Travel: 48% Cross-border Spend on Leisure Travel, 135% Rise in Amusement Park Spend, Visa Data Reveals - 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