Saudi Arabia's The Red Sea Development Company (TRSDC), which is developing the mega Red Sea Project, announced on Thursday that it has mapped the sites of its overwater assets around four key islands project.

TRSDC CEO John Pagan said the three-week exercise "was an essential step in the identification of suitable locations which will allow our hotels and other assets to coexist in harmony with their surroundings."

The location of the overwater assets, including villas, restaurants and arrival points for three luxury hotels on Sheybarah South and Ummahat Al Shaykh islands were marked in accordance with the destination's approved Master Plan, according to TRSDC's press statement.

The primary purpose of the three-week activity, the statement said, was to coordinate the setting out of the overwater assets and ensure optimum spatial planning taking into consideration the constructability constraints in order to minimise the impact of the assets on the existing environment, especially coral reefs.

Ummahat Al Shaykh will host two hotels - a hyper-luxury and a luxury island hotel, the statement disclosed.

The press statement said the project will welcome its first guests by the end of 2022. The first phase of the development will include 14 luxury hotels offering 3,000 rooms across five islands and two inland locations. Upon completion in 2030, the destination will deliver up to 8,000 hotel rooms across 22 islands and six inland sites.

(Writing by Madhura Deulgaonkar; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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