NEOM (Saudi Arabia)
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The city of NEOM will be ready by 2024 to receive tourists and investors, the CEO of the project has announced.

“We spent two years transforming the vision into a strategy, as this strategy concerns all sectors of NEOM,” Nadhmi Al-nasr said in an interview with Asharq. "We finished last year with strategies, then moved on to planning and implementation and now we have entered the implementation phase,” Al-Nasr added.

Source: https://www.arabnews.com/node/1953631/business-economy

What's the cost of such a NEOM villa? And how to buy it?

The new pre-built villas making their way to NEOM.

UNWTO and NEOM have partnered for a new initiative focused on the future of tourism in Saudi Arabia.

The ‘Tourism Experiences of the Future‘ challenge will source innovative ideas and disruptive business models related to the tourism needs of the future, in line with growing demand for new experiences. All proposals must be aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals and should include the introduction or adaptation of digital and technological elements, as well as being focused at least one of the following areas:
- Optimizing and maximizing the potential of experiential tourism
- Harnessing the positive impact of new technology
- Alternative business models
- Innovative experiences

Source: https://www.miragenews.com/unwto-and-neom-launch-tourism-experiences-of-648769/

Saudi Arabia is all set to invite bids for the construction of residential cities dedicated for a total of 100,000 project workers within its futuristic $500-billion new city Neom on the Red Sea coast.

The government plans to offer five to 10 bids over the coming six months, reported Saudi Gazette. Each of these residential cities will have the capacity to accommodate around 10,000 workers.

Source: http://tradearabia.com/news/CONS_387394.html

#NEOM project execution in full swing as Teams are committed to meet the targets , InshaAllah. This Mega project incorporate smart city technologies and #Tourism in SaudiArabia! #Vision2030

Source: https://twitter.com/Adnan_Zaheer/status/1413853519648538632

Saudi Arabia’s NEOM is planning to launch its first hotel by the end of 2022, and it will open up to 15 hotels between 2023 and 2025, before ramping up the pace to reach 30 hotels annually.

Head of Tourism at NEOM Andrew McEvoy said that talks were held with big five brands, IHG, Hilton, Accor, and others.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market 2021 held in Dubai, McEvoy added that the expected initial number of visitors next year ranges between 20,000 and 50,000, indicating that Neom is targeting about one million visitors by 2025, and 5 million by 2030. He revealed that ten of NEOM's 39 islands are being developed and will be delivered on time.

Source: https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/2984846/neom-launch-first-hotel-2022

A ground floor walk around of the NEOM construction camp where the project is being run from. The views from up in the mountains later in the video are more interesting though. You can see "the line" moving out from the construction camp.