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Taif Season attracts more than 750,000 visitors in first 10 Days
The organizing committee for Taif Season, a month long festival in Saudi Arabia, announced it has seen huge demand for all four main areas, with more than 750,000 people visiting in the first 10 days of the festival.
Taif Season features more than 70 quality events across the four major sites – Souk Okaz, the Crown Prince’s Camel Festival, the Village of Roses, and the Al-Baid Masters, which includes mountain hiking events – and accompanying activities, such as the Marathon of Colours, tours, and shopping festivals.
Taif season is designed to highlight the city’s status as one of the most important Arab tourist destinations, focusing on its cultural and historic diversity, and its pleasant weather. Taif Season ends on August 31 2019.
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