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Ras Al Khaimah growth stalls ahead of Wynn casino opening Original

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By Manal Albarakati Verified
| Semafor Verified
Ras Al Khaimah built for a property boom around a casino, but the casino is running late. The low-profile emirate, best known for its ceramics, has been reinventing itself around Wynn Resorts’ $5.1 billion Al Marjan Island resort, which will house the Gulf’s first legal casino. However, the Iran war has caused logistics problems and undermined the tourism sector, prompting Wynn to delay the resort’s planned spring 2027 opening by a “modest,” if unspecified, amount.
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Gulf brands wade into gaming

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By Manal Albarakati Verified
| Yahoo Finance Verified
Gaming is moving from the margins of Gulf marketing budgets toward the center. In Saudi Arabia, two-thirds of the population are active gamers and the state has committed more than $37 billion into games studios and esports through its Public Investment Fund-owned Savvy Games — including the Esports World Cup, currently being held in Paris. Numbers like that are persuading brands to start treating in-game ads and product placements as a serious channel rather than a spare-budget experiment.
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Saudi’s first ultra-luxury train doesn’t make any stops

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By Manal Albarakati Verified
| Semafor Verified
One of Saudi Arabia’s newest luxury journeys will take you right back to where you started. Dream of the Desert, the kingdom’s first ultra-luxury train, is due to start running at the end of the year, with cabins from $8,000 a night. One of its trips will leave Riyadh in the afternoon on a two-day swing through the desert without stopping.
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