Hundreds of bazaar owners in Sharm el-Sheikh have blocked the road leading to Na’ama Bay and the airport in protest against a perceived security vacuum in the city, where a French tourist was killed and a German tourist and two Egyptians were...
The Salafi-oriented Nour Party has agreed with the Egyptian Federation of Tourism Chambers to permit all types of tourism, except those involving “prostitution,” according to party spokesperson Mohamed Nour.
“Tourists must respect...
As millions headed to cast their votes in Monday’s parliamentary elections, protesters in Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the revolution – spent the day differently.
The demonstrators, who have been partaking in an open-ended sit...
A settlement has been reached over the shortage in flights for Egyptian Hajj pilgrims this year, an official at the Egyptian Travel Agents Association said on Thursday.
The association previously revealed that 80 percent of Hajj flights providers...
Cairo hotels occupancy dropped by 11 percent, affected by the violence at Maspero on Sunday, said Osama al-Ashry, undersecretary of the Tourism Ministry.
He said Cairo hotels were the most affected by the events, followed by Luxor and Aswan.
Ashry...
The Egyptian tourist and antiquities police in South Sinai has closed Taba Border Crossing on Friday in anticipation of a terrorist attack at the crossing on Yom Kippur, the holiest day celebrated by Jews. The Israeli closed the crossing from their...
Statements by prominent Islamists expressing their intent to create regulations for tourism in Egypt have prompted tourism workers to begin forming a political coalition to face them in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
“We will not...
The attack on the Israeli Embassy will have a negative impact on the tourism sector, Head of International Tourism at the Egyptian Tourism Authority (ETA) Samy Mahmoud said Sunday. Mahmoud added that Tourism Minister Mounir Fakhri Abdel Nour has...
The Egyptian Tourism Union called for boycotting Saudi Arabian Airlines until the latter issues an official apology for mistreating Egyptian Umra pilgrims at Jeddah International Airport.
Meanwhile, the Egyptian Chamber of Tourism is preparing its...
Samy Mahmoud, head of the Ministry of Tourism’s international tourism department, said on Monday that the industry's total revenues for the current financial year will be around US$3 billion less than last year.
“We made US$12.8...