Riyadh Exhibition Centre (Malham)

Riyadh Exhibition Centre occupies the Malham site in northern Riyadh, the out-of-town exhibition district that organisers use for large-format shows, reached from the city via the northern road network toward King Khalid International Airport, roughly 20 to 35 km and half an hour away. Its significance is scale and timing: it gave Riyadh a venue able to absorb the large-format trade shows that arrived with Saudi Vision 2030, and it has hosted the inaugural Saudi Food Show in 2023, Cityscape Global in the same year and successive editions of Black Hat Middle East and Africa. The site contains 243,388 sq m of total event space, of which 50,000 sq m is outdoor and about 70,000 sq m is exposition space, distributed across 13 event spaces. Four linked exhibition halls account for 39,350 sq m with eight primary and eight service entrances, alongside a 1,000 sq m VIP lounge with a 3 m ceiling, a 350 sq m meeting room, four working stations, two offices and an operations room. Capacity is quoted at 33,000 attendees at once, with more than 7,500 parking spaces. Architecturally the halls are column-free, modular, flat-roofed volumes with about 10 m clear height, 3.5-tonne rigging capacity per truss and eight main doors, built for heavy vehicle and machinery displays rather than for conventional conference use, and the campus is completed by tented and outdoor areas for overflow. Transport is road-based: car or coach on the northern ring and Airport Road, with taxis and ride-hailing for the last mile.