01 October 2019
Saudi Arabia's Diriyah Gate Development Authority (DGDA) announced on Monday that it has signed separate agreements to develop a luxury resort and a golf course as part of the Diriyah Gate mega project.

The agreements were signed with luxury resort developer Aman and the Greg Norman Golf Course Design (GNGCD) Company, DGDA said in a press statement.

DGDA has been mandated to develop historic Diriyah site, located in the capital city of Riyadh, as a major educational, cultural, recreational, and hospitality hub.

The press statement said the boutique Aman hotel would be built in Bujairi, the lifestyle and culture hub of the Diriyah Gate and adjacent to the At-Turaif UNESCO World Heritage Site. The 27-hole Wadi Safar Golf Course, the statement continued, would be developed in a residential district being developed by DGDA in the west of Riyadh.

The statement said the new projects at Diriyah have been launched in the context of new Saudi eVisa system for non-religious tourists launched last month. While the world's largest oil exporter is also the Middle East's second biggest market for tourism, until recently this had been almost exclusively religious tourism to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.

(Writing by Madhura Deulgaonkar; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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