RIYADH: The Saudi Tourism Development Fund and the Abdul Latif Al Abdul Latif Hotel Group will build a new four-star resort with retail stores in Al-Ahsa governorate, it has been announced. The facility will be managed and operated by the international hotel firm Radisson Blu. The hotel comes as part of a tourism project in Saudi Eastern Province"s largest governorate, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The project"s annual gross domestic product is expected to be as much as SR42 million ($11.2 million)i, the TDF announced on Twitter. The hotel will provide more than 180 hotel rooms and nearly 400 job opportunities, it said.