Dubai, UAE — IHG Hotels and Resorts will open a new Hotel Indigo in Oxagon, a coastal industrial city in Saudi Arabia’s futuristic NEOM, under a franchise agreement, IHG said Friday.
The 250-key Hotel Indigo property will be situated in the Oxagon’s first residential community and will open its doors in 2026.
Designed to integrate work, live, and play, Oxagon’s neighborhoods will be fully walkable, with sustainable on-demand mass transit and micro mobility solutions, IHG said in a statement.
“Just as no two neighborhoods are alike, no two Hotel Indigo properties are the same, taking inspiration from the area around each hotel to inform all aspects of the guest experience, from the hotel’s boutique design approach to locally inspired restaurants,” the statement said.
“Similarly, the Hotel Indigo property in Oxagon will be designed as a lifestyle destination offering exciting retail and dining concepts including cafés, a pool lounge, and a specialty restaurant,” it added.
Haitham Mattar, MD, India, Middle East and Africa, IHG, said, “This extraordinary establishment is set to welcome guests in 2026. In addition, our lifestyle brand, Hotel Indigo, has seen great success in the Kingdom with several signing in the past months.”
IHG currently operates 37 hotels across five brands in Saudi Arabia, including InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn, Staybridge Suites, and Voco, with 31 hotels in the development pipeline set to open within the next three to five years.