DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s citizens will become fitter and more active, and enjoy a more dynamic and vigorous economy, under sweeping plans by the government to promote sporting activities in the Kingdom and to stage big international sporting events.
Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, the Minister for Sport, told Arab News that his plans part of the Vision 2030 strategy to diversify the economy would lead to the creation of new businesses and jobs in the multi-billion-dollar global sports industry. It would also help remedy health issues within the Kingdom linked to lack of mobility and obesity.
“In the end sport will be a tool to benefit the people of Saudi Arabia and, inshallah, to deal with these issues that we have,” he said.