Canadian design studio and IP licensor Moon World Resorts Inc. has unveiled MOON, a vast destination resort concept designed to welcome millions of guests a year with a lunar-inspired headline attraction.
The moon may well be landing in the UAE. Moon World Resorts Inc., a Toronto-based design studio, is setting its sights on the future of tourism with a large-scale destination resort designed to act as a “bridge” to space travel. Conceived as a mass-volume development, the project is positioned to integrate hospitality, entertainment, wellness, business, and residential living within a single integrated masterplan.
Delivered as a turnkey concept via a professional team of 50 international partners, MOON is planned around a 60-month build-out. The company has suggested 2032 as a potential opening date for the first destination, with a global target list of regional licensee locations that includes Australia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Poland, Spain, Thailand, the UAE, and the USA.
At its heart is the showpiece sphere billed as the world’s largest, with a 271-metre diameter and an overall height of 312 metres above ground level. Surrounding it is a vast masterplan spanning 2,000,000 square metres across roughly 500 acres, designed to deliver a complete resort ecosystem.
Inside the sphere, Moon’s centrepiece is a 4,000-room, all-suite, five-star hotel, complemented by an upper-level signature attraction: a lunar surface and lunar base experience for guests. At the base, the development expands into a constellation of integrated venues and facilities, spanning a convention and event centre, a wellbeing and longevity hub, restaurants, a boutique high street, conference spaces, educational facilities, an e-sports centre, ballrooms, business and discovery centres, and a 200-room all-suite five-star hotel.
Beyond the central resort, the plans extend outward to The Visionary Park and Lagoon, followed by luxury-branded residence units distributed across 16 sphere buildings and 20 towers. A panoramic Sky Walk is slated to wrap around the outer ring, with a dedicated commercial real estate zone above it, designed for tier-one companies in the space and aerospace sectors.
For those of us who can’t afford a ticket on Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – it’s $450,000 for a seat – Moon Dubai may well be the next best thing.
GO: Visit www.moonworldresorts.com for more information.