Qatari Diar Takes 29 Million Square Metres on the Hurghada-Safaga Road for a 20-Year Tourist City
The Qatari state developer has taken delivery of roughly 7,000 feddans in Hurghada and plans to launch the first phase before the end of the year, a trade outlet reports.
26 September 2026
Qatari state developer Qatari Diar has taken delivery this week of a plot of 29 million square metres in Hurghada, ahead of building an integrated tourist city over a development period of 20 years, according to Tourism Daily News.
The land sits on the Hurghada-Safaga road and is equivalent to about 7,000 feddans - large enough, the outlet reports, to hold hotels, tourist units, entertainment and commercial services rather than a single beach resort.
On the information available, the company intends to launch the first phase before the end of this year, and has received approaches from Egyptian and Gulf developers wanting to take on parts of the scheme.
Tourism Daily News notes that adding hotel capacity on this scale could reshape supply and demand in Hurghada: the wider the choice in front of a visitor, the more competition between properties turns on price against the quality of the service and the stay.
The announced information carries no figures for unit sale prices or hotel rates, no construction start date, and no named contractor or hotel operator.
The outlet sets the plot alongside Qatari Diar's expansion at the Alam El Roum project on the north-west coast, where announced investment totals **$29.7 billion**, with the first phase alone expected to reach EGP 220 billion and a plan for international hotels of around 4,500 rooms.
For residents, a 7,000-feddan development on the Safaga road is a twenty-year fact about the shape of this coast, not a season's news - and one where, so far, a single trade outlet holds most of the detail.