Recently released figures from the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) show a revival in tourism revenues during the 2018-19 fiscal year to reach $12.6 billion, 29 per cent higher than the receipts realised during the previous fiscal year.
Tourist arrivals (...)
Egypt's cabinet reviewed during its meeting chaired by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli on Wednesday the executive measures taken by the Ministry of Environment to reduce the use of single-use plastic bags and the ministry's plan for the coming six (...)
Accumulated debts of $2.1 billion, online competition, shifting tastes and global geopolitical events led Thomas Cook, the British tour operator with 178 years of history in travel operations behind it, to liquidate its assets, file for bankruptcy, (...)
In the wake of giant UK travel group Thomas Cook announcing its bankruptcy, a number of tourism experts expect that this will reflect negatively on Egypt's tourism.
Member of Egyptian Tourism Federation Nagi Erian told Ahram Online that Thomas Cook (...)
Thomas Cook operator Blue Sky Group said on Monday that 25,000 reservations in Egypt booked up to April 2020 had been cancelled after the British tour group announced bankruptcy.
In a statement sent to Reuters, Blue Sky's CEO Hossam El-Shaar said (...)
Egypt is implementing on sanitation projects in the Red Sea Governorate with total investments of 2.5 billion Egyptian pounds, Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Communities Assem el-Gazzar said.
Four sanitation projects are being implemented (...)
Time Magazine has chosen Egypt's Red Sea Mountain Trail as one of the world's greatest places for tourists in 2019.
"Plunging gorges and craggy mountain-side are not all that separate mainland Egypt's first long-distance hiking trail from the beach (...)
President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi honoured on Sunday 18 Egyptian scholars on the occasion of the Science Day celebrated at Al Manara International Conference Center in New Cairo.
The honoured scholars and university professors received previously other (...)
Al Dau Development is looking for expansion across Egypt, Mohamed Salem, senior operations and commercial director at Al Dau, told Daily News Egypt in an interview, where he talked about the company's projects and development plan; the transcript (...)
State-run Egyptian Arab Land Bank (EALB) comparing between offers submitted by investors to sell either Hurghada Long Beach Resort or Long Beach El Sokhna among its plan to divest one of its grand assets, Vice Chairman Amr Gadallah said.
He added to (...)
The temperature is expected to drop starting Friday in Cairo with highs of 38 degrees Celsius and lows of 25, following three days of high temperatures exceeding 40 degrees at peak, the head of the Egyptian Meteorological Authority Ahmed Abdel-Aal (...)
يقع متحف الرمال بالغردقة Sand City Hurghada جنوب مدينة الغردقة في محافظة البحر الأحمر، ويعتبر من معالم مصر الشهيرة.
ورغم أن فكرة المتحف ليست جديدة، إلا أن متحف الغردقة هو الأول من نوعه في شمال إفريقيا ومنطقة الشرق الأوسط.
كما أن متحف الرمال في (...)
The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) will be bidding for the construction of a solar power plant in Hurghada with a capacity of 20MW next month.
A government source told Daily News Egypt that the tender includes the implementation of a (...)
تزامنًا مع احتفالات مصر بعيد الأضحى المبارك، تتنافس الفنادق والقرى السياحية بالمناطق الساحلية مثل الإسكندرية ودهب وشرم الشيخ والغردقة، بتوفير أفضل العروض والتخفيضات لجذب أكبر عدد من النزلاء والزائرين.
وترصد "الوطن" أسعار حجز الفنادق في العيد على (...)
A Phone call between Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and UK's Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday is expected to lead to a tangible improvement in bilateral relations between the two countries, the secretary-general of the Egyptian (...)
IWAN Developments has launched the second phase of The Axis, a modern residential complex built over multiple terraces with a focus on landscaping, CEO of IWAN, Waleed Mokhtar, told Daily News Egypt.
Daily News Egypt interviewed Mokhtar to learn (...)
The Ministry of Tourism's dues for lands allocated to hotel and resort projects amounted to $180m until the end of last year.
A senior government official told Daily News Egypt that 600 investors have obtained land plots from the Ministry of Tourism (...)
Ministers of Civil Aviation and Tourism inaugurated on Tuesday passenger terminal 2 at Hurghada International Airport after increasing its capacity to 7.5 million passengers annually which comes in line with the growing number of tourist arrivals to (...)
A delegation from Egypt's civil aviation ministry inspected Sharm El-Sheikh International Airport, as the country continues its efforts to attract tourists via charter flights previously suspended by several European countries since the crash of a (...)
The global net income of the American multinational hospitality company Hilton reached $225m during the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2018, while the full year's net income recorded $769m, according to Hilton's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2018 Results. (...)
Orascom Development Egypt (ODE) is planning to add a 100-room-capapcity Casa Cook Hotel, one of the high-end hotels the company ever had with only four others in the Middle East, to its hotel portfolio in El Gouna, under the Thomas Cook brand by (...)
Egyptian tourist numbers to Georgia increased during the first half (H1) of 2019 by 12.1% to reach 3,734 tourists, ambassador of Georgia to Egypt, Alexander Nalbandov, said during his regular press conference for the Egyptian media, on (...)
Cairo, Sharm El-Sheikh, Hurghada, and Alexandria are to witness a growth of 11%, 39%, 29%, and 27% respectively year-over-year (y-o-y) in revenues per available rooms (RevPAR), Colliers International said in its latest MENA Hotels Forecast report in (...)
Egyptian navy forces managed on Monday to save a touristic boat (My OXYGEN) from drowning near one of the Red Sea's islands. The boat was carrying eight Egyptians, in addition to other three persons who are representing the crew.
According to a (...)
Metito is implementing a desalination plant in Al-Arish area with a capacity of 100,000 cubic metres per day in the first phase at a cost of EGP 1.6bn.
“The project is implemented in cooperation with Orascom, and the desalinated water from this (...)
