His Excellency Turki Alalshikh, Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Basic Leisure Authority (GEA), introduced at at the moment’s Press Convention (Sunday) the total particulars of Riyadh Season 2025, which is about to start Friday October 10 subsequent to Boulevard Metropolis at 4pm with a large parade to showcase all the brand new options for this upcoming season. This yr’s Riyadh Season represents a serious leap ahead within the leisure business within the Kingdom and builds on the success of earlier editions which have solidified Riyadh’s standing as a worldwide leisure capital with the 2025 version set to incorporate 11 primary leisure zones throughout Riyadh, internet hosting 15 international championships and 34 exhibitions and festivals.
This yr’s season is about to draw much more international consideration with the amount and profile of its main occasions, activations and conferences being staged with participation from greater than 2,100 corporations throughout varied sectors— 95% of them native — by way of 4,200 contracts signed with the non-public sector. This demonstrates the empowerment of nationwide skills and the rising position 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 yr’s Riyadh Season welcomed greater than a report 20 million guests from over 135 international locations, over 3,300 worldwide media, and achieved in extra of 110 billion international media impressions — reflecting Riyadh’s robust worldwide presence among the many world’s high locations for international occasions.
HE Turki Alalshikh revealed that the estimated model worth of Riyadh Season has reached $3.2 billion (SAR 12 billion), reflecting its rising international popularity and confirming its place as one of the distinguished 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 carry 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 number of different international leisure leaders.
• Beast Land – a brand new zone to Riyadh Season in collaboration with MrBeast protecting 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 challenge of its type worldwide.
• Royal Rumble – one in all WWE’s marque wrestling occasions being held for the primary time exterior of North America, with Wrestlemania set to observe in 2027, additional cementing the season’s place as a global hub for main leisure spectacles.
• Boulevard Metropolis will host a wealthy lineup of leisure, together with eight sports activities tournaments akin 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 characteristic 19 leisure experiences, together with six new sights akin 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 yr after its nice success ultimately yr’s season.
• Returning occasions to Riyadh Season 2025 embody globally acclaimed tournaments akin 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 international locations, Snooker 167, Kings Cup MENA and Saudi Masters Darts – the primary PDC darts occasion in Saudi Arabia, together with the Fanatics Flag Soccer Basic involving NFL legends Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski plus different international stars, scheduled for March 21 2026 at Kingdom Area
• The Pleasure Awards 2026 – the celebrated 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 vehicles as prizes for attendees.
• Boulevard World will characteristic 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 international locations: 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 surprising 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 challenge, developed over three years, permits as much as 90 folks 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 Pink Sea. The cruise will cowl 14 locations, that includes 29 eating places and cafés, 10 spa and health services, and 20 leisure areas, making it a totally built-in vacation spot for luxurious leisure and leisure.
• At Through Riyadh, the profitable Ana Arabia exhibition will proceed, showcasing a variety of premium merchandise throughout a number of pavilions representing a number of Arab international locations.
• The season additionally goals to have interaction all segments of society by way of 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 youngsters. 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—by way of 49 concert events, 84 theatrical performances, and 100 cultural carnivals.
• HE Turki Alalshikh highlighted that Riyadh Season 2025 locations robust 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 surroundings. He added that this yr’s musical concert events will probably be distinctive in each scale and substance, with high Saudi and Gulf artists performing large-scale exhibits accompanied by Saudi musicians—reflecting the thriving creative motion inside the Kingdom.
• By way of social duty, His Excellency highlighted that Riyadh Season provides particular consideration to neighborhood initiatives. The “Laylat Al-Omr” (Evening of a Lifetime) initiative, held final yr in collaboration with neighborhood service sponsors, achieved a big humanitarian impression. He added that this yr, the initiative will probably 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 providers. This displays the season’s dedication to empowering nationwide skills, strengthening native provide chains, supporting Saudi corporations, and fostering collaboration with authorities entities — all of which contribute to sectoral progress, sustainability, and elevating the standard of experiences provided to guests from inside and outdoors the Kingdom.
He concluded by affirming that Riyadh Season 2025 will probably be a defining milestone within the historical past of worldwide leisure, emphasizing that Riyadh has develop into the logo of a brand new period of creativity, tradition, and worldwide leisure excellence.
