Neom & Tabuk

NEOM is being built on the Red Sea in northwest Saudi Arabia as a living laboratory – a place where entrepreneurship and innovation will chart the course for this New Future.
The northwestern city of Tabuk has long been a resting point for Jordanian and Egyptian pilgrims, with a rich Bedouin culture that can be felt in Souq Twaheen.
Neom is a planned cross-border city in the Tabuk Province of northwestern Saudi Arabia. It is planned to incorporate smart city technologies and also function as a tourist destination. NEOM is a bold and audacious dream. It is a vision of what a New Future might look like (in fact, NEOM means, “new future”). It’s an attempt to do something that’s never been done before and it comes at a time when the world needs fresh thinking and new solutions.  NEOM will include towns and cities, ports and enterprise zones, research centers, sports and entertainment venues, and tourist destinations. It will be the home and workplace for more than a million citizens from around the world.

Tabuk Region is home of some of the jewels of Saudi Arabia, both natural and historical. Some of the most prominent natural features of Tabuk Province are: the majestic sandstone formations originating from the Wadi Rum in Jordan and crossing the whole region towards the south; the Sarawat mountains peaking over 2500 meters above sea level; the volcanoes of the Harrat Al-Uwayrid; and the beaches and coral reefs of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba.

On the historical side, Tabuk Province is famous for its ancient rock art, its ancient oasis on the frankincense trade road, its glorious stories of prophets, its epic battles, its pilgrimage roads, and the Hejaz Railway whose fate was told in the book and the movie “Lawrence of Arabia”.