His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Common Leisure Authority (GEA), introduced at right this moment’s Press Convention (Sunday) the complete particulars of Riyadh Season 2025, which is about to start Friday October 10 subsequent to Boulevard Metropolis at 4pm with an enormous parade to showcase all the brand new options for this upcoming season. This 12 months’s Riyadh Season represents a significant leap ahead within the leisure trade within the Kingdom and builds on the success of earlier editions which have solidified Riyadh’s standing as a world leisure capital with the 2025 version set to incorporate 11 essential leisure zones throughout Riyadh, internet hosting 15 world championships and 34 exhibitions and festivals.
This 12 months’s season is about to draw much more world consideration with the amount and profile of its main occasions, activations and conferences being staged with participation from greater than 2,100 firms throughout varied sectors— 95% of them native — via 4,200 contracts signed with the non-public sector. This demonstrates the empowerment of nationwide skills and the rising function of the non-public sector in supporting the native economic system.
HE Turki Alalshikh additionally defined that the newest version of Riyadh Season marked a brand new section of progress within the leisure sector. Final 12 months’s Riyadh Season welcomed greater than a report 20 million guests from over 135 nations, over 3,300 worldwide media, and achieved in extra of 110 billion world media impressions — reflecting Riyadh’s sturdy worldwide presence among the many world’s high locations for world occasions.
HE Turki Alalshikh revealed that the estimated model worth of Riyadh Season has reached $3.2 billion (SAR 12 billion), reflecting its rising world fame and confirming its place as one of the crucial outstanding leisure manufacturers within the Center East and the world.
Riyadh Season 2025 main occasions & conferences:
• Pleasure Discussion board – going down between October 16 and 17 at Boulevard Metropolis, this discussion board will convey collectively high leisure figures from world wide, together with US content material creator MrBeast, UFC President Dana White, sports activities legend Jon Jones, basketball icon Shaquille O’Neal, TV host and investor Daymond John, and Indian actor and director Aamir Khan, together with a bunch of different world leisure leaders.
• Beast Land – a brand new zone to Riyadh Season in collaboration with MrBeast masking 200,000-square meters and that includes over 27 rides and experiences, 40 eating places and shops, and interactive challenges and prizes — marking the primary mission of its form worldwide.
• Royal Rumble – one in all WWE’s marque wrestling occasions being held for the primary time outdoors of North America, with Wrestlemania set to comply with in 2027, additional cementing the season’s place as a world hub for main leisure spectacles.
• Boulevard Metropolis will host a wealthy lineup of leisure, together with eight sports activities tournaments equivalent to Energy Slap 17, The Ring V, Riyadh Season P1 Padel Championship, Riyadh Season Snooker Championship, Saudi Masters Darts, and Kings League MENA. The zone can even function 19 leisure experiences, together with six new sights equivalent to Minecraft and Poppy Playtime, together with 20 Arabic concert events and 14 new theatrical productions. Sneaker Con can even return to Boulevard Metropolis for the second 12 months after its nice success ultimately 12 months’s season.
• Returning occasions to Riyadh Season 2025 embrace globally acclaimed tournaments equivalent to Six Kings Slam – that includes six of the world’s finest males’s tennis gamers together with Novak Djokovic, Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcarez, Ring IV that includes world boxing title fights together with David Benavidez v Anthony Yarde and Brian Norman Jr. v Devin Haney, WBC Grand Prix – which held its qualifiers in Riyadh with athlete from 40 nations, Snooker 167, Kings Cup MENA and Saudi Masters Darts – the primary PDC darts occasion in Saudi Arabia, together with the Fanatics Flag Soccer Traditional involving NFL legends Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski plus different world stars, scheduled for March 21 2026 at Kingdom Area
• The Pleasure Awards 2026 – the distinguished awards occasion, one of many largest in leisure, will proceed to be hosted by Riyadh Season, celebrating excellence in drama, music, and different inventive fields
• Auto Present Riyadh – held at Kingdom Area, that includes 50 automobiles as prizes for attendees.
• Boulevard World will function enhanced content material in 2025, with over 1,600 retailers, 350 eating places and cafés, 40 rides and experiences, and 24 subzones, together with three brand-new nations: Kuwait, South Korea, and Indonesia.
• HE Turki Alalshikh additional introduced the launch of recent zones, together with Boulevard Flowers—a 215,000-square-meter space that includes over 200 million flowers, 200 floral sculptures, and three Boeing 777 plane, in addition to 40 eating places and cafés, creating a shocking creative panorama mixing nature and creativity. He added: “The Flying Over Saudi Arabia expertise, which promotes tourism throughout varied areas of the Kingdom, can even debut this season. This mission, developed over three years, permits as much as 90 individuals concurrently to expertise an interactive aerial journey throughout Saudi locations.”
• For the primary time in its historical past, Riyadh Season will introduce a floating leisure zone named “Auria Cruise”, providing a one-of-a-kind expertise on the Crimson Sea. The cruise will cowl 14 locations, that includes 29 eating places and cafés, 10 spa and health amenities, and 20 leisure areas, making it a totally built-in vacation spot for luxurious leisure and leisure.
• At By way of Riyadh, the profitable Ana Arabia exhibition will proceed, showcasing a variety of premium merchandise throughout a number of pavilions representing a number of Arab nations.
• The season additionally goals to have interaction all segments of society via enhanced family-oriented content material. Riyadh Zoo has been redeveloped to incorporate over 1,600 animals from 170 species throughout six themed zones, providing interactive and academic experiences for households and kids. In the meantime, Al-Suwaidi Park will proceed its programming, showcasing 13 nations—together with Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and India—via 49 concert events, 84 theatrical performances, and 100 cultural carnivals.
• HE Turki Alalshikh highlighted that Riyadh Season 2025 locations sturdy emphasis on theater, increasing its choices to incorporate a variety of Saudi, Kuwaiti, Qatari, Emirati, and Syrian performs. This goals to showcase the range of the Gulf and Arab world and empower creators to current their works in a high-quality, aggressive setting. He added that this 12 months’s musical concert events shall be distinctive in each scale and substance, with high Saudi and Gulf artists performing large-scale reveals accompanied by Saudi musicians—reflecting the thriving creative motion throughout the Kingdom.
• When it comes to social accountability, His Excellency highlighted that Riyadh Season offers particular consideration to group initiatives. The “Laylat Al-Omr” (Night time of a Lifetime) initiative, held final 12 months in collaboration with group service sponsors, achieved a major humanitarian affect. He added that this 12 months, the initiative shall be reviewed and additional developed for future launch, with its particulars and timing to be introduced later, in coordination with sponsors to make sure its enhanced success.
HE Turki Alalshikh additionally defined that the sixth version of Riyadh Season continues to help the nationwide economic system by creating in depth job alternatives, exceeding 25,000 direct jobs and 100,000 oblique jobs throughout varied fields together with operations, manufacturing, and companies. This displays the season’s dedication to empowering nationwide skills, strengthening native provide chains, supporting Saudi firms, and fostering collaboration with authorities entities — all of which contribute to sectoral progress, sustainability, and elevating the standard of experiences supplied to guests from inside and out of doors the Kingdom.
He concluded by affirming that Riyadh Season 2025 shall be a defining milestone within the historical past of worldwide leisure, emphasizing that Riyadh has turn into the logo of a brand new period of creativity, tradition, and worldwide leisure excellence.
