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Apologies if this news has already been shared. Then again, I think it will be good news for many so probably worth sharing more than once.
EGYPT
EasyJet to resume flights between the UK and Sharm...
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Unless it’s changed recently - and, Heaven knows, there’s been plenty of changes - the South Sinai visa ( actually it’s just a stamp in your passport) is for 15 days and applies to all the South...
There is growing concern that Egypt is no longer the cheap option for holidays - particularly winter holidays - and the constant hike in prices ( e.g. museum and site entry fees) could lead to a...
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Whilst the tourist numbers have almost returned to pre-revolution numbers, I agree with Who2 that it has little- nothing really - to do with the efforts of the Egyptian tourism authorities, minister,...
the Red Sea Tourist Guides Syndicate threatens to strike over christmas holidays.
The conflict between the members of the Red Sea Tourist Guides Syndicate and the Chamber of Tourism Companies...
“700,000 French tourists visited Egypt during 2019” that is 2,000 a day with 5-10 inward flights each day and 5-10 outwards on...
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Maybe I've overstated the French tourist lie - bur not the investment claim - but does anyone notice large French numbers on the coast or at Luxor? If they behave as in Australia they usually make a...
Well almost – in an equal opportunity society – which Israel is with its 1.6 million Arabs/Palestinians and its professional and public life full of women...
Two years after the United Arab Emirates (UAE) created the region’s first Ministry of Happiness and Wellbeing in 2017, its ranking went from 28 to 21 in the 2019 World Happiness Report.
Egypt was...
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Great, brilliant, does that mean I'm getting further from the 'madding crowd ?.... 8)
The occasional stats on tourist arrivals or anecdotes from members of this forum just obscure the full story. The tourism industry is very sick and the Central Bank...
According to undisclosed sources moves are afoot to appoint new governors......this after the big shuffle last year. I have some doubts about this post....and will correct later if necessary.
As...
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Cairo – Mubasher: The Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi appointed sixteen new governors on Wednesday, according to state-run television.
The newly-appointed governors include Abdel Hamid Abdel...
Who’d have thought it!! Egypt is the 8th safest country in the world.....ranking above UK and most European countries.
“Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you...
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We all have different experiences.
In Nov 2018 I was in Hurghada suffering stomach pains. I went to a doctor who examined me and gave me the usual ‘gippy tummy’ medication. The problem persisted and...
The Unfinished Obelisk - in pre-mass tourism days of almost 150 years ago.
The Granite Quarries of Syene (Aswan ) with the unfinished Obelisk 1872 ,
By Frank Dillon #British , 1823-1909...
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That one last auctioned for £ 10,000 - 15,000 at Bonhams, I wonder where it is now ?
Definitely not at The Luxor Art Gallery even though they have silly prices for pretty poor works of art.
The following has recently been posted on Facebook by Friends of Egypt support tourism to Egypt. (Personally, I find it frustrating that the prices are given in EGP for Egyptians and $ (USD) for...
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'Each trip takes two hours and a half from Hurghada to Sharm el-Sheikh.'
Wonder how long it takes from Sharm el Sheikh to Hurghada. 😆
Well...if my experience is anything to go by, the return trip...
Egyptian security forces have blocked access to Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the highly symbolic focal point of the 2011 revolution, as part of a wide-ranging crackdown aimed at heading off planned...
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A Four. A variation on the cocoon idea. No one predicted the Arab Spring (well there was one US based junior academic who did - 1/50,000), the fall of communism, Iraq 2 or the recent financial...
The English quite like modern, pre WW2, Egyptian paintings, so do billionaires in the Gulf who have driven their price up. Egypt doesn’t like much other than mythologized...
