Daikin’s New Jeddah Factory and Abha’s Green Highlands: How Saudi Arabia Is Cooling Its Tourism Boom Under Vision 2030
Published: November 28, 2025 Saudi Arabia’s transformation took two very different but closely linked turns this week. In Jeddah, Japanese HVAC giant Daikin began construction of a new chiller and hydronic heat pump factory designed to serve some of the region’s biggest mega-projects. In the southwestern city of Abha, a Los Angeles Times feature spotlighted how the kingdom’s lush mountain highlands are being remade as a flagship tourism destination — and how locals feel about the change. daikin.com+2healthcaremea.com+2 Together, these developments capture the next phase of Vision 2030: pairing nearly $1 trillion in tourism and infrastructure investment with localized, high-efficiency
