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World Expos are measured in pavilions and visitor counts, but they are built and run by workers. Riyadh's hosting of Expo 2030 - following Dubai's Expo 2020, which drew over 24 million visits - will create one of the decade's largest concentrated workforce mobilisations: years of construction, then months of operations at a scale most national event industries never touch....

Saudi Arabia's tourism sector passed a milestone this decade that few predicted a decade ago: more than one million jobs, with the sector now contributing around 5 percent of GDP and a national goal to double that share by 2030. Hotels, resorts, entertainment districts and heritage sites that did not exist five years ago now employ hundreds of thousands of...

Saudi Arabia is currently running the largest sustained building program in modern history. The Kingdom's active project pipeline has crossed $1.3 trillion, spanning giga-projects like NEOM and the Red Sea development, new transport networks, and entire districts being raised ahead of the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Behind the headlines about architecture and ambition sits a quieter story: an unprecedented demand...