Qatar plans to set up “1,000 traditional tents” in the desert to receive visitors during the 2002 FIFA World Cup, expected to reach 1.2 million fans, organizers said on Tuesday.

“This will be one of the options presented in the next two weeks,” Omar Al Jaber, executive director of the Housing Department of the High Committee on Delivery and Heritage, said in a press interview.

He explained, “This is a real camp. We will give people the feeling of the desert and Bedouin-style tents.”

The tents will be supplied with electricity through generators, plumbing and sewerage, but will not be air conditioned.

A luxury camp for 200 tents will be opened.

The tents will be set up on Sealine Beach in the south of the country, at the gates of the desert, in addition to “other sites to be announced later,” Al Jaber said.

While the number of hotels and their high prices are worrying overseas viewers, the official noted that “more than 100,000 rooms” are available.

In the coming weeks, the official platform, open to match ticket holders, will showcase new options, including ready-made ‘villages’.

Choice options for fans range from hotels, apartments, luxury villas and floating hotels, to so-called “fan villages and lodges” (rooms), as well as other options such as what the committee called “vacation houses” or housing. with relatives and friends.

The organizers have reserved a large number of hotel rooms for teams, referees, officials and the media, but the International Federation (FIFA) will vacate those that will not be used.

He promised that “from July to September there will be many hotels on the platform.”

The busiest days are November 25, 26 and 27, in the middle of the group stage, “this is the peak, but that doesn’t mean we don’t have seats available on those days.”

More than 160 round-trip flights per day from neighboring Gulf countries (Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Oman) will be arranged to accommodate fans.