Youth programs draw huge crowd

Saudi Arabia is currently witnessing around 127 tourist events specially designed for young people during summer festivals and other similar occasions in the Kingdom. These programs include adventure tourism, special sports, motor vehicle challenges, video games contests, shopping tourism, entertainment and much more. In Riyadh, many football games on PlayStation have been set up for the youth, in addition to other games including modified car shows. Jeddah has also developed several programs including roller-skating, laser games and vintage cars shows at the tourist event "Introduce Me to Saudi Arabia". In the summer resort of Taif, events designed for young people include Youth Village in addition to Actionha and the Modified Cars Festival. The summer festivities in Baha include football matches and Barcelona Stadium events. Dammam has also added a number of youth activities including car shows, youth cafés and football matches. The central province of Qassim has prepared tumbling water games, theater activities, sport contests and an exhibition of classic cars. Najran Province has allocated several activities for young people including contests to climb Rawoom Mountain and a tractors race. In Madinah, organizers have arranged a variety of programs including the Qur'an reading contest, the open day for special needs, sand sculpture contest and motorcycle shows. On Tabuk beaches, several youth activities are planned for this summer including water diving training and maritime contests. In Hail, youth activities include paragliding, camel and horse riding, Egyptian circus and falcon show. Youth activities in Al-Jouf include water scooter shows, an equestrian show, poetry contest, Saeedi mountain climbing contest and a football tournament. The Abha summer festival includes a fine art show and car shows as well as several interesting plays. These programs being conducted in different parts of the Kingdom have witnessed a heavy turnout of young people as those activities have been specially designed to meet their aspirations as well as raising the spirit of fair competition among them. From arabnews