Riyadh: Saudi Arabia has earned .
5 from Muslim pilgrimages to Makkah and Medina in 2012, a Saudi newspaper Al-Hayat reported on Thursday.
A total of 12 million pilgrims visited Islam’s holiest sites during the annual hajj which took place this year at the end of October or for the year-long umra (minor pilgrimage), the newspaper reported, citing various religious tourism sources.
Official figures suggest that around 3.1 million Muslims performed the hajj this year, including 1.
7 million from abroad, and spent 62 billion riyals (.
5 billion).
