Carl Nielsen's Aladdin Suite is full of this sort of good old, 'naive' exoticism. The Marketplace movement has different kinds of music playing at once, which is a pretty modern touch, and nicely evocative of a bustling place where different cultures meet. (See the video's information for movement titles etc)
If you enjoy those Rimsky-Korsakov works, you'll probably enjoy Borodin's "From the steppes of Central Asia". It paints the picture of a Russian caravan (symbolized by a Russian melody) meeting an Oriental caravan (symbolized by an 'oriental' melody). It's not as heavy on the orientalism as something like Scheherazade (which is a much longer work anyway), but it's a beautiful piece of music.
Glazunov should have works like Hindu song. I can't remember right now; And Ippolitov Ivanov, like Turkish Fragments, Op. 62 (first two movemensts), plus Khachaturian's Dance of the girls.
The Russians seemed to be good at this, didn't they? There is also Balakirev's Islamey - the original is for solo piano but the orchestrated version sounds more 'exotic'. Then there are the 'danse arabe' and the 'danse chinoise' from the Nutcracker.
I would advise seeking out the music of these composers:
Arensky
Borodin
Grechaninov
Ippolitov-Ivanov (his Caucasian Sketches are in the vein of Rimsky's Sheherazade)
Kallinnikov
Lyadov
Lyapunov
Stravinsky (very early works)
Taneyev
In the Steppes of Central Asia - Alexander Borodin
and if you haven't heard it yet, somehow: Polovtsian Dances - Alexander Borodin
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