Second resort city planned for Salalah in Oman

• ‘Boulevard Razaz’ will cost $100m
• Part of tourism programme
• Aim is to create 1,500 jobs

Oman has approved a second major resort in Salalah on the Indian Ocean in the south of the sultanate in an effort to attract more tourists as part of the country’s economic diversification programme.

The $100 million, 470,000 square metre project has been named Boulevard Razaz and will include canals, landscaped gardens, a shopping mall, restaurants, a marina, a hotel and an exhibition centre. 

“The objective of this project is to attract more tourists to Salalah while the big picture is to reduce Oman’s dependence on revenues from oil production,” Sayyid Marwan Al-Said, the governor of Salalah, told Oman Television. 

• New $350m city planned in southern Oman to attract tourists
• Omani tourism struggles against fierce Gulf competition
• Oman targets 45,000 new jobs this year

Last month the government announced the construction of the Salalah New City waterfront development which will cost $350 million.

Al-Said said that Boulevard Razaz, expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2027, will create 1,500 jobs for locals. 

Salalah, 800km south of Oman’s capital, Muscat, is cooler and greener than the rest of the Arabian peninsula in the summer, when it catches the seasonal monsoon rains in the Indian Ocean, making it a destination for domestic and regional tourists.