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Riyadh Season Attracts More Than 12 Million Visitors in 60 Days

Two months after their launch on October 11, 2023, Riyadh Season events had already attracted 12 million visitors. (SPA)
Two months after their launch on October 11, 2023, Riyadh Season events had already attracted 12 million visitors. (SPA)
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Riyadh Season Attracts More Than 12 Million Visitors in 60 Days

Two months after their launch on October 11, 2023, Riyadh Season events had already attracted 12 million visitors. (SPA)
Two months after their launch on October 11, 2023, Riyadh Season events had already attracted 12 million visitors. (SPA)

Two months after their launch on October 11, 2023, Riyadh Season events had already attracted 12 million visitors, SPA said on Tuesday.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Entertainment Authority (GEA) Turki bin Abdulmohsen Al Al-Sheikh said in a tweet that the success of the event is due to the great support from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Crown Prince and Prime Minister.
Riyadh Season attracts big numbers of visitors with various and unprecedented activities and experiences in fields such as entertainment, fashion, technology and communication, electronic games, perfumes, fine arts and crafts.
Riyadh Season is one of the major Saudi events that established new concepts in the world of entertainment and makes the capital, Riyadh, the first destination for international entertainment and gastronomy.

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Art as Therapy: Swiss Doctors Prescribe Museum Visits

A patient, who is a part of a project in which doctors prescribe museum visits, looks at artworks in the Art and History Museum in Neuchatel, Switzerland March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A patient, who is a part of a project in which doctors prescribe museum visits, looks at artworks in the Art and History Museum in Neuchatel, Switzerland March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
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Art as Therapy: Swiss Doctors Prescribe Museum Visits

A patient, who is a part of a project in which doctors prescribe museum visits, looks at artworks in the Art and History Museum in Neuchatel, Switzerland March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
A patient, who is a part of a project in which doctors prescribe museum visits, looks at artworks in the Art and History Museum in Neuchatel, Switzerland March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Swiss doctors are expanding the range of prescriptions for patients with mental health conditions and chronic illnesses to include strolls in public gardens, art galleries and museums.
The city of Neuchatel, in western Switzerland, launched the pilot project with doctors last month to help struggling residents and to promote physical activity.
"For people who sometimes have difficulties with their mental health, it allows them for a moment to forget their worries, their pain, their illnesses to go and spend a joyful moment of discovery," Patricia Lehmann, a Neuchatel doctor taking part in the program, told Reuters.
"I'm convinced that when we take care of people's emotions, we allow them somehow to perhaps find a path to healing."
Five hundred prescriptions will be handed out for free visits to four sites, including three museums and the city's botanical garden.
One of them went to a 26-year-old woman suffering from burnout whom Reuters met at the Neuchatel Museum of Art and History, which has masterpieces by Claude Monet and Edgar Degas as well as a collection of automated dolls.
"I think it brings a little light into the darkness," she said, asking to remain anonymous.
Authorities say the idea came from a 2019 World Health Organization study exploring the role of the arts in promoting health and dealing with illness.
During COVID-19 lockdowns, museum closures hit people's well-being, said Julie Courcier Delafontaine, head of the city's culture department.
"That was a real trigger and we were really convinced that culture was essential for the well-being of humanity," she said.
The initiative will be tested for a year and could be expanded to other activities such as theater.
"We'd love this project to take off and have enough patients to prove its worth and that one day, why not, health insurance covers culture as a form of therapy," said Courcier Delafontaine.