Yas Island

About Yas Island

Yas Island is an island in Abu Dhabi. The island is the site of a US$36 billion development project by Aldar Properties. It occupies a total land area of 2,500 hectares, of which 1,700 hectares will be claimed for development. The island holds the Yas Island Circuit, which hosts the Formula One Abu Dhabi Grand Prix since 2009.

It will also feature attractions such as Warner Bros Movie World, a movie theme park by Warner Bros, the Ferrari theme park Ferrari World Abu Dhabi, hotels including Yas Marina Hotel, a water park, and Yas Mall, the Abu Dhabi destination retail development of 300,000 sq m retail area; links and parkland golf courses, lagoon hotels, marinas, polo clubs, apartments, villas and food and beverage outlets that will create a tourist destination.

The future resident and working population on the island is estimated to be around 110,000.

Yas Island was named the World’s leading tourism project at the World Travel Awards in November 2009.