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A Luxury Desert Revival: Fattal Hotel Group Unveils Multimillion-Dollar NYX Dead Sea Resort
also enjoy a expansive main swimming pool, a children’s club, a modern fitness center, event spaces, and a chef- driven restaurant. Designed as an immersive wellness destination, NYX Dead Sea will house an advanced spa facility with 11 treatment rooms, a saltwater pool, and a dedicated solarium designed to harness the region’s famous therapeutic minerals and sunlight. Adding a major new attraction to the region, the resort will also build an innovative, state-of-the-art water park. Accessible to both hotel guests and day visitors, the water park aims to establish a premier family entertainment destination in the area, bolstering the Dead Sea’s appeal to international travelers seeking both relaxation and adventure. Fattal Israel’s Joint CEOs, Nadav Fattal and Assaf Fattal,
highlighted that the project reflects strong confidence in the Dead Sea’s enduring status as a world-class travel destination. They explained that the vision is to create a desert lifestyle resort unlike anything currently in the area, seamlessly blending wellness, high- end hospitality, and vibrant social energy. Guests can look forward to poolside DJ sets, lively evening bars, and a chic atmosphere tailored for travelers seeking a modern, high-quality holiday experience. Construction on the flagship project is scheduled to begin toward the end of this year, with the official grand opening planned for early 2028. Upon completion, NYX Dead Sea will join Herods Dead Sea, Leonardo Plaza Dead Sea, and Leonardo Club Dead Sea as part of Fattal’s diverse luxury portfolio in the region.
The major hospitality project will transform a classic location into a vibrant lifestyle retreat, featuring private pool suites, a state-of-the-art wellness center, and a brand-new water park I srael’s iconic Dead Sea
an entirely new, modern lifestyle resort designed to redefine luxury and entertainment at the lowest point on Earth. Stretching across 44 dunams (nearly 11 acres) of prime desert landscape, the upcoming resort will feature 182 stylishly designed rooms, including 37 premium suites equipped with private plunge pools. Guests will
region is set to welcome a groundbreaking addition to its hospitality landscape as the Fattal Hotel Group announces the launch of NYX Dead Sea. Replacing the former Leonardo Inn, the site will undergo a complete ground- up redevelopment backed by a massive investment of hundreds of millions of NIS. The transformation will yield
Haifa Unveils Ambitious $1 billion Waterfront ‘Strip’ with Hotels and Moving Walkway
At its center would be an expanded convention and exhibition complex,
alongside new hotels, commercial areas, entertainment venues and a large arena. The project’s defining feature is intended to be continuous pedestrian connectivity across an area that is currently divided between major transport hubs, commercial sites, sports facilities and the coastline. Visitors arriving at Haifa’s Hof HaCarmel railway station or adjacent bus terminal would enter a covered, air-conditioned circulation system featuring a moving walkway similar to those used in major airports. The route would connect the railway station with the convention center, planned arena, hotels and the beach. Above it, planners envision a shaded elevated promenade modeled in part on projects such as New York’s High Line.
H aifa is advancing an ambitious multibillion-shekel plan to transform the city’s southern entrance into a continuous business, tourism and entertainment district inspired by urban “strip” models in cities including Las Vegas, Singapore, New York and Barcelona.The project, being promoted by Haifa Municipality and the city’s economic development corporation, is still in the planning and feasibility stage. Initial estimates put its cost at 2.5 billion to 4 billion shekels, roughly $770 million to $1.2 billion.The plan would expand the existing convention center complex from about 76 dunams (19 acres) to roughly 130 dunams (32 acres) and add around 191,000 square meters (2.06 million square feet) of new construction.
The proposed redevelopment would expand Haifa’s southern gateway to 130 dunams, add 191,000 square meters of construction, 750 hotel rooms and a 10,000-seat arena
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