Saudi Arabia Builds a 500 Billion Dollar City for the Asian Winter Games

• Saudi Arabia will be the first country in West Asia that hosts the Winter Asian Games.
• The event will take place in Neom (a megacity yet to be constructed), according to the plans of the desert kingdom. 
• Planners stated that Neom’s features included flying taxis, robot maids and a year-round resort for skiers.

Saudi Arabia won the bid to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games. The location? The location? 

“The deserts, mountains and plains of Saudi Arabia will soon become a paradise for winter sports.” According to the AFP, the Olympic Council of Asia (or OCA) made a statement.

Saudi Arabia announced that the event will take place at a Neom mountain resort. By 2045, the city of $500 billion will be home to up to 9,000,000 residents. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman — who’s the chairman of Neom’s board — said in July.Neom will likely cover approximately 16,5000 square kilometers or 10,230 square miles. It is larger than Israel or Kuwait. A BBC report dated February.

Trojena is a Neom development that has a year-round skiing complex, a freshwater lake and luxury hotels. The games will be held in Trojena. According to Neom’s official site.Trojena lies approximately 30 miles from the Saudi coast. Winter temperatures are frequently below freezing.

Trojena is still in development, but it’s not yet available. The construction of Trojena is expected to take place in 2026. Per the AFP.

It is one of many. Most controversial in Saudi history.

Economists, architects, plannersThey expressed their doubts about the PossibilityNeom is a company that promotes technology that doesn’t exist yet. Some of the controversial plans include the incorporation of flying taxis, robot maids and a giant artificial moon into the project. According to a Wall Street Journal report, 2019.

Neom was constructed. Announcement2017

It is unclear how much construction has been completed five years after the announcement of the project. There are 2,000 residents in the city’s residential camp. Bloomberg released a July report.Neom Community 1 is a residential camp made up of “neat grasses and identical white houses” that are the same size as shipping containers. The report compares the site to a Google campus or a minimum security prison.

Andy Wirth, an American hospitality executive and Neom 2020 project manager, stated that “I wasn’t the only one who realized it was spurious.” “The total absence of being tethered, objectively, to reality is what was displayed there.”

Every four years, the Asian Winter Games take place. Saudi Arabia is the first country in West Asia to host the event. It was last held in Sapporo (Japan) in 2017.