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Hotel101 Global announces $2.5B, 10,000-room Saudi expansion with Horizon Group
JVSPAC Acquisition Corp.
- Hotel101 Global (DoubleDragon/JVSPAC merger target) announces JV with Horizon Group to build 10,000 rooms worth $2.5B in Saudi Arabia.
- First hotel in Medina, followed by Riyadh, Jeddah, Abha, Alula; average 500 rooms per site.
- Hotel101 CEO Hannah Yulo-Luccini cites tourism boom; Saudi Arabia registered 27M intl. tourists in 2023.
- Expansion ahead of planned Nasdaq listing via merger with JVSPAC (still pending, expected H1 2025).
- Hotel101 currently has over 1,100 operating rooms in Philippines, plus sites under construction in Japan, Spain, and US.
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