Bahrain is making more efforts to expand its tourist market beyond Royal weekend visitors, which has been a long-standing trend. Tourists from Saudi accounted for roughly 86 % of visitor arrivals in 2024, or 12.8 % of the total number of international visitors that year, according to the most recent data from Bahrain’s Data & eGovernment Authority. Millions of Arabian visitors can travel by the King Fahd Causeway for weekend getaways to Bahrain’s money Manama in 45 minutes. According to the Bahrain administration’s website, Bahrain’s commerce strategy lists five vital resource areas: the GCC, the UK, China, India, and Germany. And it includes media/cinematography tourism, business tourism, sports, outdoor tourism, health tourism, and tourism for the marines. The government claims to have invested more than$ 10 billion in direct tourism industry.
