[1][2][3][4] Neom was elected as the host city at the 41st OCA General Assembly on 4 October 2022 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The Games sports will take place in Trojena, a mountain tourism destination under construction in Neom.

Trojena is expected to become the first major outdoor skiing destination in the Arabian Peninsula upon scheduled completion in 2026.

[9] Amidst increasing global-warming concerns, the option for the host city of the games raised multiple issues ranging from the high temperatures in the desert, the energy impacts and detour of local water resources to the construction of artificial ski slopes from scratch.

Raphael Le Magoariec, a political scientist and specialist in the geopolitics of sports in the Persian Gulf region, said that Riyadh "mainly wants to promote Neom its city of the future."