Dubai, 22 October 2025. The worth of MENA’s hospitality market is about to develop from US$310 billion in 2025 to greater than US$487 billion by 2032, in accordance with knowledge launched forward of the Future Hospitality Summit – FHS World, Madinat Jumeirah Dubai, 27-29 October.
The journey and tourism sector is projected to contribute US$367 billion to the Center East economic system and assist 7.7 million jobs this 12 months, says the World Journey and Tourism Council. Worldwide customer spending is anticipated to achieve almost US$194 billion, up almost 1 / 4 from 2019, pre-pandemic ranges, with home spending forecast to hit US$113 billion.
As of Q2 2025, the Center East’s resort development pipeline reached an all-time excessive of 650 tasks with 161,574 rooms. On the finish of June, 337 tasks, with nearly 86,500 rooms, had been underneath development, with 147 tasks attributable to begin by Q2 2026.
Saudi Arabia tops the Center Japanese resort development chart, with greater than 92,000 rooms throughout 342 tasks. Subsequent is Egypt with 127 tasks and a record-high room depend of over 28,000, adopted by the UAE with 100 tasks (25,470 rooms); Oman with 27 tasks (4,709 keys) and Qatar with 16 tasks (almost 3,500 rooms).
The unprecedented hospitality, tourism and infrastructure growth reinforces the area’s place as a world magnet for funding, say consultants.
Amr El Nady, Head of Accommodations & Hospitality MEA and Managing Director, International Lodge Desk at Jones Lang Lasalle, mentioned: “Saudi Arabia is focusing on 150 million vacationer arrivals yearly by 2030, whereas Egypt goals for 30 million worldwide guests by 2028. Each nations are searching for to considerably improve tourism’s contribution to their GDP, with KSA focusing on 10% and Egypt 15%. This strategic focus is driving substantial hospitality funding, with mega-projects like NEOM, The Crimson Sea Challenge, and AlUla in KSA, alongside Egypt’s New Administrative Capital, Ras Al Hekma, South Med and Crimson Sea developments.
“The surge in improvement creates alternatives for each main worldwide resort operators and boutique manufacturers to diversify their portfolios by introducing new ideas starting from ultra-luxury desert resorts to culturally immersive heritage properties. The diversification technique permits operators to cater to evolving traveller preferences whereas supporting the nations’ aims of reworking their economies by means of sustainable tourism progress and positioning themselves as premier world locations.”
JLL added that liquidity within the resort funding panorama stays remarkably strong, underpinned by resilient resort buying and selling efficiency and rising vacationer arrivals. Efficiency knowledge reveals 12 months on 12 months progress in phrases occupancy and ADR metrics, reflecting the sector’s operational energy and market confidence.
Amr El Nady added: “This robust efficiency has considerably enhanced urge for food from regional and worldwide traders – from high-net-worth people to institutional gamers – all searching for high-yielding, income-generating resort belongings and mixed-use developments, notably throughout the UAE market. The area’s funding enchantment continues to draw various capital sources drawn to its strategic positioning and progress potential.
“Final 12 months, JLL forecasted US$1.2 billion in Dubai resort transactions, and present market exercise signifies we’re on monitor to exceed this milestone, additional demonstrating sustained investor confidence.”
Within the UAE, Dubai’s hospitality sector – which has round 10,000 new rooms on the way in which between now and 2027 – continues to ship an impressive efficiency, in accordance with the hospitality division at main actual property advisory group and property guide, Cavendish Maxwell.
“Occupancy ranges rose to 81% in H1 2025, a rise of two.5% year-on-year,” mentioned Vidhi Shah, Director, Head of Industrial Valuation at Cavendish Maxwell. “In the meantime ADR throughout Dubai’s inns and resorts reached US$159, up 4.7%. With its hospitality sector persevering with to paved the way in setting new benchmarks in security, inclusivity and connectivity, Dubai stays a premium, world vacation spot for leisure and enterprise travellers, in flip opening up a plethora of latest funding alternatives.”
Oman can be more and more turning into a sizzling spot for hospitality funding, with tourism anticipated to contribute 5% to GDP by 2030 and 10% by 2040 – and overtake transport and logistics to change into the nation’s second most necessary trade after hydrocarbons.
Oman is about to spice up resort room stock by 25% by 2030, with 9,600 new keys on the way in which within the subsequent 5 years, and a couple of,600 by the top of 2025, latest perception from Cavendish Maxwell reveals. In H1 this 12 months, greater than 1.1 million visitors checked in to 3-5 inns, the place revenues rose greater than 18% to US$367 million. The robust efficiency led to nearly 5% progress in hospitality employment, with 10,800 individuals now working within the trade.
The Center East’s continued progress in tourism and hospitality is being additional boosted by varied authorities campaigns and initiatives throughout the area to encourage funding, worldwide visits and enterprise arrange.
In KSA, upcoming world occasions like Expo 2030 and the FIFA World Cup 2034 are boosting already robust demand for actual property, together with undertaking within the hospitality sector. As well as, from January 2026, foreigners will be capable of buy actual property belongings in designated zones – a landmark improvement set to additional deepen investor urge for food.
Funding and actual property is a key monitor at FHS World, with greater than 30 displays, panel debates, workshops and one-to-one conversations protecting every part from sensible capital to sustainability and funding, cross border methods to constructing world partnerships, investing in mixed-use tasks and rather more. Go to futurehospitality.com/world/agenda for topics and audio system throughout the three-day programme.
