The new $500bn mega-city will open up to 15 hotels a year in the period between 2023 and 2025.
The giga-project, which is located in Saudi Arabia, is planning to open the first of its hotels by the end of 2022 as its proceeds on its target to host around one million visitors by 2025 and 5 million by 2030.
Andrew McEvoy, Sector Head of Tourism at Neom, commented: “If you think about getting five million visitors by 2030, you need a lot of room keys. We’re not just a sun and sea leisure destination. We’ll have the full mix of what I call the visitor economy: so everyone from corporate travellers to people who are taking an adventure trip of a holiday. We’ve spoken to the big five brands, IHG, Hilto, Accor, etc. and we’re well under way with that.”
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and its lasting impacts which disrupted global trade and forced government borders to shut, work on Neom’s tourism project accelerated. The initial number of visitors expected next year is already expected to be between 20,000 and 50,000.
