CAIRO: A group of touristic companies' owners announced via their official Facebook page the postponement of a sit-in, calling for Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour's dismissal, scheduled for November 20 as their demands are studied by (...)
The Egyptian Tourism Companies' Chamber today announced that it will halt all business with 52 foreign companies, including Israeli company Mazada Tours, for failure to pay debts to Egyptian companies.
The Chamber urged both the defaulting (...)
The Egyptian tribal votes in the upcoming parliamentary elections will not be based on which party the candidate associates, said chiefs of different tribes participating in the “Egyptian Personalities” Festival in Hesse Island.
“We will vote for (...)
Many of the tribal chiefs who participated recently in the “Egyptian Personalities” Festival today agreed that the January 25 Revolution did not contribute positively to the present moment, and that while the figures changed the oppressive regime (...)
PORT SAID, Egypt: Egyptian Minister of Aviation Lutfi Kamal and Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga were welcomed with banners saying; "Remnants prevail, the January 25 Revolution still didn't arrive at Port Said," during the (...)
Egypt won two prizes, Best Tourism Destination in Africa and Best Tourist Attraction in Africa, during the Oscar Festival for International Tourism in the Indian Ocean and African States.
The Giza pyramids won in the Best Tourist Attraction (...)
CAIRO: The umrah season has ended with the return of the last of the umrah pilgrimage groups today, according to Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour.
Umrah is considered the ‘minor' pilgrimage to the Muslim holy site of Media, (...)
Authorities at Cairo Airport strengthened security procedures for flights destined for New York and Europe on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks that took place in New York ten years ago Sunday.
Security sources at the airport said that (...)
Three ministries and representatives of chambers of commerce will oversee government policies affecting Muslim Pilgrims according to the chairman of a Chamber of commerce.
Nasser Turky, vice-chairman of the Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of (...)
Tourism workers today launched a Facebook page calling for a boycott of Saudi Arabian Airlines to protest against the poor treatment suffered by returning Egyptian pilgrims, many of whom were both forced to stay in Jeddah for three or four days and (...)
Egypt's ruling military council has approved a decision to convert a military airport into a civilian airport, according to Tarek Saad, the chairman of the executive body of the national commission for tourism development.
This decision to open (...)
The Egyptian Interior Ministry is looking into removing security guards from hotels, according to a member of the Federation of Tourist Chambers.
A member of the Federation, Adel Abdel Razzak, said Minster of Interior Mansour el-Issawy is (...)
The Deputy Minister of Tourism and chairman of tourism companies and stores sector, Osama el-Ashry, decided to cancel the license of any company violating regulations of pilgrimage this season.
Regulations violation is when a travel agency (...)
CAIRO: The tourism committee in the business association will hold an important meeting, lead by Ahmed Balbaa. The urgent plan was prepared by the association to save the tourism sector and pass its crisis after the January 25 (...)