How many hotels and short-stay accommodation providers are in Abha?
Hotels, furnished apartments, resorts and other short-stay accommodation. Figures for Abha, compared with the rest of the Kingdom.
490
active registrations in Abha — 8th among Saudi cities.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
Abha has 490 active commercial registrations listing hotels & short-stay accommodation activities as of 16 September 2026 — 1.6% of the Kingdom's total and the 8th-most of any city.
Hotels & short-stay accommodation account for 3.4% of Abha's classified registrations, 1.6× their share nationally — a city where the sector is unusually concentrated.
Across the Asir region as a whole there are 1,275.
- Hotels & short-stay accommodation in Abha
- 490
- 1.6% of the Kingdom
- City rank
- 8 of 69
- Cities with registrations in the sector
- Concentration
- 1.6×
- Above the national average
- Nationally
- 30,593
- 2.1% of classified registrations
Hotels & short-stay accommodation: leading cities
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Common questions
How many hotels and short-stay accommodation providers are there in Abha?
490 active commercial registrations in Abha list hotels & short-stay accommodation activities as of 16 September 2026 (Ministry of Commerce data).
How does Abha compare with other cities?
Abha ranks 8th of 69 cities for hotels and short-stay accommodation providers, with 1.6% of the national total.
How do I set up in hotels & short-stay accommodation in Abha?
Confirm the activity code and its licence conditions, obtain a MISA investment licence (for foreign owners), register the company with the Ministry of Commerce, then get the municipal (Balady) licence for your premises in Abha. Alpha Consultancy runs the whole sequence.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
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