TABUK — The Red Sea Project, Saudi Arabia's unique luxury and environmentally sustainable tourism destination on its western coast, is expected to receive its first visitors by the end of 2021. The Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) Eng. Abdul Rahman Al-Fadhli made an inspection tour of the project site. He inspected the progress of the development works at the Red Sea International Airport project. Eng. Al-Fadhli, who is member of the Board of Directors of the Red Sea Development Company, also paid a field visit to the headquarters of the Red Sea Project, to review the progress of the latest work and achievements at the project headquarters. The minister was accompanied by The Red Sea Development Company CEO John Pagano, Chief Administrative Officer Eng. Ahmed Ghazi Darwish, and a number of other senior executives. Al-Fadhli toured various facilities and development works of the project, especially the temporary residential staff headquarters, which accommodates more than 500 employees at present, and the construction site of residential city for the project staff. The minister also planted a seedling at the nursery, which will supply more than 15 million seedlings in future to provide the destination projects with sufficient vegetation cover, as well as to ensure the needs of the surrounding projects.
