An Egyptian tourism ministry delegation headed by the minister, Rania Al-Mashat, arrived in Dubai on Saturday to take part in the Arabian Travel Market exhibition, which takes place next week.
The business-to-business exhibition, which has been (...)
Egypt's Minister of Tourism Rania El-Mashat met on Thursday with the director of the US National Travel and Tourism Office Isabel Hill on the sidelines of Germany's leading tourism trade show ITB Berlin, where they discussed the US experience in (...)
Egypt's Tourism Minister Rania El-Mashat will attend Germany's leading tourism trade show, ITB Berlin, from 7 to 11 March, seeking to boost interest in the country's tourism industry, the ministry said on Tuesday.
Egypt will have a large booth at (...)
Egypt's tourism ministry said on Saturday that it will launch a promotional campaign with Italian football team AS Roma to attract Italian tourists to the country.
The ministry said the ad campaign will start during AS Roma's match against Napoli on (...)
Egypt's General Authority for Tourism Development and Italian tourism federation Fiavet announced a strategic partnership on Friday that will see a six-month promotional campaign involving a thousand Italian tourism companies, according to a (...)
Egypt's Mediterranean city of Alexandria is set to host an international festival on World Tourism Day next Saturday, with the attendance of a number officials, foreign ambassadors as well as tourists and public figures, aiming to shed light on (...)
Egypt's prosecution ordered the detention of an Italian tourist pending investigations for beating an Egyptian hotel manager to death in the Red Sea resort of Marsa Alam late Friday, a statement by the tourism ministry read.
The assault took place (...)
Egypt is one of the countries making a comeback among German tourists this summer season and has scored the highest increase in booking, Germany's tourist news website fvw, which has been reporting tourism news for the past 45 years, reported (...)
Egypt will see a "significant increase" in the number of tourists starting this winter, chairman of the Tourism Promotion Authority Hisham El-Demery told Ahram Online on Wednesday.
The campaign to promote tourism to Egypt, which was launched in (...)
Egypt will facilitate visa and entry procedures to Gulf residents accompanying tourists from the Arab Cooperation Council countries visiting the country, Tourism Minister Yehya Rashid told the press on Monday.
Tourist visas will also be granted at (...)
Egyptian tourism minister Yehia Rashed headed to Rome on Tuesday for talks with the Vatican's tourism officials to discuss promoting tourism to Egypt as the site of the journey of Jesus and the holy family, according to a statement by the (...)
Egypt saw $1.6 billion in tourism revenues from around 1.7 million tourists who visited the country in the first three months of 2017, compared to around 1.2 million tourists in same period last year, a source at the tourism ministry told Ahram (...)
Egypt will introduce new electronic visas for tourists as of June in an attempt to attract more visitors and boost tourism in the country, according to the tourism ministry.
The new visa will be available for tourists from countries whose citizens (...)
Egypt's tourism minister promised on Tuesday that visa procedures would be "facilitated" for visitors from Arab countries, ahead of a hoped-for increase in visitors during Ramadan and the summer holidays.
According to a ministerial statement (...)
The number of tourists visiting Egypt during the first quarter of 2017 rose by 51 percent compared to the same period last year, an official source at the tourism ministry told Ahram Online late on Sunday.
Egypt received around one million tourists (...)
Egypt will operate four direct flights a week from Germany to the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh as of Friday in an attempt to return the number of foreign tourists to previous levels, the Egyptian tourism ministry announced on (...)
The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) called on the UK government Tuesday to lift the ban on UK flights to Sharm El-Sheikh.
In a letter to British Prime Minister Theresa May, the two (...)
Belgian Jetairfly will resume flights to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh starting on Sunday following a one-year suspension, Egypt's tourism ministry announced on Wednesday.
The ministry described the decision by Brussels as one that “reflects the Belgian (...)
The number of tourists coming to Egypt dropped by 50 percent in the first half of 2016 compared to the same period last year, the head of Egypt's Tourism Authority Samy Mahmoud said.
Only three million tourists visited Egypt in the first six months (...)
The Ministry of Tourism, in cooperation with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, launched on Sunday an online portal in 14 languages and 250 touristic attraction points.
The website can be accessed at beta.egypt.travel
It aims (...)
Egypt will hire the UK-based Control Risks Group, an independent, global risk consultancy firm to review and enhance security conditions in its airports nationwide, Hisham Zaazou, the tourism minister, announced on Tuesday at press conference in (...)
Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou said on Sunday that the country's tourism sector was on its way to recovery now that Denmark, Italy and Germany had lifted their travel warnings on Egypt.
Zaazou said hotel occupancy rates had climbed to 70 percent (...)
Egyptian Minister of Tourism Hesham Zaazou has called on citizens of Saudi Arabia to spend their summer holiday in Egypt.
The minister gave his invitation during a press conference held by the Organisation of Arab Tourism in Jeddah.
“Egypt is safe (...)
The tourism sector has been hit hard by the current wave of violence across Egypt, with hotel occupancy rates hitting a record low and tourists fleeing the country.
As clashes reached their climax on Monday night in Cairo's downtown, masked (...)
The number of tourists that visited Egypt in the first 10 months of 2012 has grown 18.6 per cent over the same period last year, Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou said on Sunday.
"Egypt has received around 9.6 million tourists between January and (...)