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The tourist development authority (TDA) has received 64 applications to establish seven tourism investment projects on the Red Sea coast worth some LE3 billion ($0.4 billion), the authority stated on Thursday.

Mostly of the applicants are Arab and Egyptian tourism investment companies.

The projects on the Red Sea coast in South Sinai and Suez governorates amount to 7.8 million square metres.

A medical tourism project, tourist resorts and a marina to link the beach cities of Ain Sokhna and Ras Sedr are the main ventures proposed by the TDA.

Egypt aims to reinvigorate the tourism industry, which represents over 11 percent of the state’s GDP, after it suffered a blow in the wake of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi's ouster in July 2013.

Last week, Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou headed to Germany to urge tour operators to ease their advice against travel to the entire Sinai Peninsula after the fatal bombing of a tourist bus prompted operators to bring back holidaymakers from Sharm El-Sheikh a week earlier.

"Our latest crisis is the negative travel advice by the German government," Zaazou told Reuters in an interview at the ITB travel fair in Berlin on Wednesday.

France and Britain, two other major sources of tourists for Egypt, also advise against travelling to the peninsula but exempted Sharm El-Sheikh.

Source: http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/96097.aspx

Hotel occupancy is currently at about 30 % out there, and its 90% Russians and 10% English.

Nice lot of people those Russians, so best not to listen to the rumours on Tripadvisor. What you put out is what you get back I often find.

Well worth a visit, best thing I ever did, but I doubt I will return, since there's so much more of the world to see.

My Little Georgian friend Nuki, made me a tempting offer, which will be under investigation when my Wife returns from her other holiday in Porth Madog
She left with her mate 14 hours after we got back from Sharm.. Nice Gig,
Her mate Kerry is pretty fit, and to be honest, I wouldn't mind being shacked up in a luxury caravan on the North Wales Coast with her either..
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I came across this little gem earlier on before the thunderstorm hit.
http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/03/0 ... ai-desert/

Seems there were eccentrics with dreams then

There is still a few2 eccentrics around with a few dreams, what's wrong with that ? the thunder claps! still rock the heavens..

So is this a sign of where tourism investment is going to be for the future?

"We are Doomed Captain Manwaring! Doomed!"

The way I see it is, - You will soon know the tourists coming to Luxor, including their names address's and telephone numbers, because we will only be getting the regular ones, those with husbands here, (Dah), or has some forum members say the Hardliners. It's easy to see this scenario by internet posts and social networking posts.

Chocolate Eclair wrote:So is this a sign of where tourism investment is going to be for the future?

"We are Doomed Captain Manwaring! Doomed!"

The way I see it is, - You will soon know the tourists coming to Luxor, including their names address's and telephone numbers, because we will only be getting the regular ones, those with husbands here, (Dah), or has some forum members say the Hardliners. It's easy to see this scenario by internet posts and social networking posts.

I like fence posts, as the fence is were I sit most comfortably.