{
  "id": 15866713,
  "title": "Saudi Arabia’s key service sectors expand in 2025 as number of hotels rises 31.6%",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/21/saudi-arabias-key-service-sectors-expand-in-2025-as-number-of-hotels",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-21T07:46:44.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Saudi Gazette",
    "slug": "saudi-gazette",
    "url": "https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/665604/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabias-key-service-sectors-expand-in-2025-as-number-of-hotels-rises-316"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s number of producing factories in industrial cities increased by 18.9 percent to 4,938 in 2025, compared with 2024, according to the General Authority for Statistics (GASTAT). The authority’s Services Statistics 2025 report showed that the factories were distributed across 36 industrial cities in the Kingdom. In the tourism sector, the number of hotels increased by 31.6…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}