"Disappointment" is the word, by which the tourism sectors described the Christmas season and the New Year, due to the low inbound tourism in Egypt. The tourism sector is depending on these two occasions, specifically in Luxor and Aswan to (...)
Egypt's World Dream Tours lost as to EGP 500 million in 2012.
The Board Chairman, Alaa Hashem, has elaborated that the company lost EGP 500 million because of the low turnout of tourists on the tourism attractions in Cairo; referring that the (...)
The World Tourism is celebrating today with registering one billion tourists traveled around the world in 2012 as a new record number in tourism, according to reports issued by World Tourism Organization (WTO). The reports showed the necessity of (...)
A reliable source in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism said the current political tensions resulted in ignoring the World Tourism Organization (WTO) celebration of recording one billion tourists in 2012. As the ministry was planning to decorate the (...)
Misr Egypt Company is mulling over selling 2 of its floating hotels between Luxor and Aswan, they are Scheherazade and Shahryar floating hotels, and substituting them with new floating one next year.
General Fouad Sanad, Misr Travel Chairman, has (...)
EgyptAir Airlines has decided to operate 3 new flights between Cairo and Istanbul; starting from January 15th, 2013 and till the end of the winter season
Captain Roshdy Zakaria, Chairman of EgyptAir Airlines, in a statement issued today, stated that (...)
Maher Naseef, Head of Tourism Transport Committee, at Egyptian Travel Agents Association (ETAA), refused the new tax law announced by President Mohamed Morsi, which provides provide for imposing 10% tax on tourism transport.
Naseef has referred that (...)
Misr Egypt is mulling over having a partnership with the private sector or a bank to develop "Magawish" town in Hurghada, and taking advantage of the empty areas in the town via building residential units and mall.
General Fouad Sanad, Misr Travel (...)
Mody Mageed, General Manager, at Amadeus Egypt, has affirmed that the Egyptian tours abroad, especially to Turkey, doubled by 400$% throughout the past 18 months. Also the religious tourism has been doubled, as there is a high turnout on the (...)
Amadeus Egypt company has launched a new service for the tourism companies on the mobile, and the possibility of having an application under the company's name to deadly suit the mobiles and their different systems.
The new service allows the (...)
EgyptAir Company has honored the prime tourism and travel agents, which achieved the high sales on EgyptAir flights during the last year, as well as it honored the companies and economic entities in Egypt.
Samir Embaby, Minister of Civil Aviation, (...)
Amadeus Egypt company, in cooperation with EgyptAir, is organizing a conference and exhibition to the latest technologies and applications by the participation of more than 400 officials and decision makers in the tourism sector, airlines companies (...)
Captain Roshdy Zakaria, Chairman of EgyptAir Airlines, has announced that the company is heading for a number of new destinations; including Toronto in Canada, Manchester in England, next June to reactivate the travel on its board.
Captain Roshdy (...)
Tarek Saad El Din, CEO of Tourism Development Authority (TDA), said the board has approved offering 4 ventures in the touristic investment during December in Ain Sukhna, Nabq and Marsa Alam.
The CEO also mentioned that the authority has offered a (...)
Egyptian Tourism Coalition has affirmed that the news disseminated about the million-man march of Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist parties in Tahrir Square, to support President Morsi's decisions, canceled many reservations, and led to (...)
Adel Zaki, Head of Foreign Tourism Committee, at Egypt Travel Agents Association (ETAA), has stated that the street violence in Tahrir Square, objecting on the constitutional declaration, instability and security tensions negatively affect the (...)
Egypt's Minister of Tourism, Hesham Zazou, said the latest incidents took place in Mohamed Mahmoud Street, sit-ins and tensions that the Egyptian street witnessed, objecting on the constitutional declaration, affect the promotions that we do for the (...)
The Egyptian General Company for Tourism and Hotels (EGOTH), jointly with the Holding Company for Tourism, Hotels & Cinema (HOTAC), has launched a website, www.historichotels.com.eg, to promote its historic hotels; in the framework of the company's (...)
The Egyptian Tourism Federation (ETF) filed a complaint to the Prosecutor General against Sheikh Morgan Salem, who called for devastating the antiquities. He is being accused of intentional damage of tourism industries in Egypt.
Adel Abdel Razek, (...)
Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Hesham Zazou, has underscored the necessity of reducing the Air Passenger Duty (APD) to Egypt, which is assessed on passengers from UK, affecting the British tourism coming to Egypt. The duty reaches £ 30 per (...)
Egyptian Minister of Tourism Hesham Zazou said the ministry is negotiating with the British EasyJet Airline Company Limited to launch flights to Cairo, Luxor and Aswan.
Zazou added that the ministry is convening meetings with EgyptAir Airlines and (...)
Misr Travel, the most important leading travel company in Egypt, has allocated EGP 7 million to renovate the Khan El Khalili restaurant, which the company owns, in Al-Hussein district.
General Fouad Sanad, Misr Travel Chairman, said starting the (...)
Egypt's tourist arrivals rates has improved throughout the period from January to October, by 18%, compared to the same period last year, said Hesham Zazou, Minister of Tourism.
During his participation in EU- Egypt Task Force Business and Tourism (...)
Cairo International Airport has renewed the international license by the civil aviation authority, which is under the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
Samir Embaby, minister of civil Aviation, said the license was suspended since (...)
Egyptian Minister of Civil Aviation Samir Embaby said the ministry will offer terminal 4 at Cairo International Airport to the investors of the private airlines companies in the coming months to make use of the airport's assets.
He said, on the (...)