Egypt Independent The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a residential and commercial suburb dating back to the Greco-Roman era in the Shatby district of Alexandria on Thursday. “The team found resting places for travellers and visitors to the city while they waited for entry permits. …
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Nevine al-Aref – Ahram Online Egyptian Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Enany, US Ambassador in Cairo, Jonathan Cohen and Luxor Governor Mostafa Alham inaugurated the recently restored and developed Wakalet Al-Geddawy on Sunday. The venue is a caravansary, which was built in 1792 to store trade goods and lodge traveling …
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Egypt Today Egypt’s Egypt’s Minister of Culture, Inas Abdel Dayem, launched the ‘29th Salah El-Din Citadel International Festival for Music and Singing’ on Sunday. The festival was suspended last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Such artistic events highlight the civilised face of Egypt and raise citizens’ awareness of art, …
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Egypt Today “Visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum will see the restoration work of the second Khufu Solar Ship in action. The boat will not be assembled before the opening of the Grand Museum, as it requires a very long time to completely assemble it”, said al-Tayeb Abbas, Assistant Minister …
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Egypt Today “The number of tourists flowing into Egypt monthly has reached 500,000 for the past four months, and 550,000 in June”, Khaled al-Anany, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities stated on Sunday. “60% of tourism to Egypt comes from Europe, however, there is a slowdown due to COVID-19 travel restrictions”, …
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Egypt Independent Egyptian Ambassador to Rome, Hisham Badr, discussed measures taken by the Egyptian government to ensure that tourist destinations are free from the coronavirus at a Friday meeting with the Italian Minister of Tourism Massimo Garavaglia and the director of the EgyptAir office in Rome Hatem Mahmoud. Badr stressed, “the …
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Egypt Independent “Egyptian revenues from tourism fell by 67.4%, to US$3.1 Billion in the first nine months of 2020-2021 fiscal year”, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) announced in a statement late on Tuesday. “Net foreign direct investment flows to Egypt in the first nine months of the 2020-2021 fiscal …
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Ahram Online “Egypt’s Ambassador to London Tarek Adel managed to recover three artefacts, dating back to the Pharaonic and Greek eras, before being sold at an auction hall in London”, a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read on Thursday. Ambassador Adel lauded the fruitful cooperation between the Egyptian …
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Egypt Independent Egypt won the seat of presidency for the Middle East regional committee at the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) in the elections held at the 47th meeting of the committee in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. It was agreed that Egypt would host the meeting of the UNWTO Commission …
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Egypt Independent “Approximately 500,000 tourists from 20 countries visited Egypt in April, marking a continuous increase in tourist flow at up to 50% of original numbers before the pandemic”, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled al-Anany announced on Saturday. “The royal procession of mummies earlier this year helped promote further …
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