King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) in collaboration with the Arab Tourism Organization, an affiliate of the Arab League, recently hosted a special visit by the ambassadors and consuls of the Arab countries along with their families, for three days in the Bay La Sun Hotel and Marina, the city’s first hotel.

The purpose of the visit was to discuss the economic city’s advantages and opportunities that include modern services, global standard infrastructure, and promising investment environment.

The diplomatic delegation was received by Fahd Al-Rasheed, group CEO and MD of KAEC, and Ahmed Linjawi, deputy CEO, as well as senior executives from KAEC.

Linjawi gave a detailed account of the city’s progress and presented a documentary film that includes the most important achievements and developments that have been completed.

He pointed out that the city is one of the largest and most important economic projects run by the private sector in the Middle East, on an area of 181 million sqm, and is being developed to become an integrated city that benefits from a promising investment environment designed to enhance the global competitiveness of the Saudi market.

He added that the city comes with a long-term strategy plan adopted by our wise government to diversify the national economy and reduce dependence on oil as a source of the national income.

Al-Rasheed said: "This visit comes at a time when the KAEC is experiencing a rapid growth in various sectors and development projects. The delegation’s visit gives us a great opportunity to show the latest progress of the city, and demonstrate our efforts to achieve the vision of an economic, social and tourism streams with modern specifications.”

During the second day, the delegation visited the city’s different components and listened to an illustrative explanation about the advanced status of developments.