We like to keep up with news and events in NEOM, Saudi Arabia and the surrounding area. Here are some of the news sites we read regularly.
The Saudi Arabian government is likely to increase funding to NEOM, the 26,500-sq-km giga development in the kingdom’s northwest region, adding to the government's initial commitment of $500 billion, according to one of the leaders of the project.
Visitors to the city will have a guilt-free vacation and the city seeks to make holidays environmentally friendly, Andrew McEvoy, managing director tourism at NEOM, told Arab News on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market.
NEOM's unique rules and regulations will attract residents and visitors alike, says project official. Andrew McEvoy told The National he expected two million “NEOMians” to call the city their home by within the next decade. Mr McEvoy made his comments on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market, currently being held in Dubai’s World Trade Centre.
Saudi Arabian industry sector is seeking to attract investment of $32 billion in nine projects in the fields of mining and metals to bolster exports of metal products to local and global markets, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on May 6th, citing Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Al-Khorayef.
As Saudi Arabia is building multimillion-dollar giga-projects, it intends to alter the possibilities of travel through regenerative tourism, with an aim to build things with a circular economy in mind.
NEOM’s top executives are attending the ATM, the Middle East’s largest travel and tourism exhibition, that will be addressing the concerns and hopes of the industry in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Saudi Arabia’s NEOM Green Hydrogen Co. has selected a contractor to build solar and wind plants to supply the city’s $6.4-billion green hydrogen-based ammonia plant with electricity, Meed reported.
Aviation experts and leaders will gather from all over the world to attend the Future Aviation Forum, a two-day event to showcase the advancements in international air travel, even as Saudi Arabia aims to generate $100 million from the aviation sector by 2030.
Carved into the Sarawat mountain ranges, the futuristic mega-development named TROJENA is set to become Saudi Arabia’s top tourist destination. Scheduled to be completed by 2026, the major development project is part of NEOM, the country’s multi-billion-dollar smart city, and will be powered entirely by renewables.
NEOM Green Hydrogen Company’s board announced on Sunday the appointment of David Edmondson as Chief Executive Officer of the company, one of the recently launched companies that are accelerating the impressive progress already made by the giga-project in the northwest of Saudi Arabia.
NGHC is a joint venture between NEOM, ACWA Power and Air Products to build a world-scale, green-hydrogen-based ammonia production facility powered by renewable energy. NGHC will establish the green hydrogen facility, which will be the first of several similar plants expected to make it a hub for green hydrogen production going onstream in 2026. NEOM will use the green hydrogen it produces to fuel clean, autonomous electric vehicles, among other solutions.
A tourism update from NEOM regarding TROJENA.
TROJENA is situated in the center of NEOM, 50 kilometers from the Gulf of Aqaba coast, in a region characterized by a mountain range with the highest peaks in Saudi Arabia at approximately 2,600 meters above sea level. TROJENA aims to change current perceptions of visitors and residents about the services that can be provided by mountain resorts, through its exceptional design, advanced architecture and technology that integrates reality with the virtual world.
Tourism professionals from around the world will return to Dubai next week when Arabian Travel Market, the leading event for the travel industry in the Middle East, returns to the Dubai World Trade Centre on Monday, 9 May.
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