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The Ministry of Tourist of Egypt and Egyptian Tourism Authority aannounced their participation in the Arabian Travel Market, which is occurring in Dubai from April 24-27. The involvement remains in line with both of their initiatives to highlight Egypt's substantial tourism potential and concentrates on the different destinations that attracts vacationers from around the world, specifically Arabs.

H.E. Yehia Rashed, Minister of Tourism in Egypt, claimed: "Our involvement at the Arabian Traveling Markets largely aims at engaging and connecting successfully with our companions and stakeholders in the region and to improve the efforts to draw in Arab vacationers to Egypt. The Arab market stands for among one of the most significant markets exporting tourism to Egypt. This is due to numerous reasons, most importantly because of the closeness to several Arab countries and resemblance of the language and customs, which permits Arabs to seem like they remain in their second home when in Egypt."

" Arab tourist to Egypt in 2016 represented 36.3 percent of the total vacationer web traffic to Egypt, which is greater than one third of the overall website traffic. Saudi Arabia ranked first amongst incoming Arab visitors, with a total of 507 thousand travelers seeing Egypt, followed by Jordan, with 180 thousand tourists, and Kuwait with around 150 thousand travelers and Lebanon with almost 86 thousand. The complete number of vacationers from Arab nations to Egypt got to two million travelers in 2016, compared to 1.7 million Arab travelers in 2015, which notes an increase of 13.2 percent, whereas in the initial quarter of 2017, the number of Arab vacationers boosted by 38.8 percent when as compared to the exact same period in 2015." H.E. Rashed included.

" Egypt is always eager to take actions to encourage and attract tourists from Arab countries, whether it is through helping with entry and visa treatments or motivating airline companies from Arab nations to arrange routine flights," said H.E Rashed, He included, "We are presently servicing promoting entrance visas to residential assistants that typically go along with guests from the GCC regions, in addition to presenting group visitor visas from our guests and tourists from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia".

H.E reiterated: "The recent check outs of international stars and certainly the prepared visit the Vatican's Pope Francis this April 28-29 are the most significant evidence of the world's self-confidence in Egypt, and its historic and social positioning. We are very positive and positive concerning the tourism web traffic to Egypt in the coming period."

The Egyptian pavilion at the Arabian Traveling Markets occasion this year will certainly display the diversified Egyptian locations that deals with all categories, with a focus on cultural, religious and medical tourist. This consists of the Holy Family members route, which was revived by elevating the performance of its sites and with advertising plans that advertised it. Eight historical sites have been completed, containing 25 factors as a first stage, that include the 'Abu Serga church', 'the Hanging church' in old Cairo, 'Virgin Mary's church' in Maadi, the monasteries of 'Wadi El Natrun' (Anba Bishoy - El - Suryan - Baramus- Abu Makar), 'Church of the Holy Virgin at Gabal Al- Teir, Abbey and 'Virgin Mary's Church in Hill Dronka. All this was accomplished with consistent control with Ministry of Society, Ministry of Antiquities, and both the churches; the Coptic and the Catholic as well as the UNESCO.

H.E. Rashed ended: "Egypt's participation in the Arabian Traveling Markets occasion seeks to shed light on the Holy Household route in Egypt, by leveraging the worldwide coverage that is anticipated to go along with the see of the Pope to Egypt, which reconfirms Egypt's online reputation as an important cultural, religious and tourism location"

Mr. Hisham Al-Demiri, Chairman of Egyptian Tourism Authority claimed: "We aim through our engagement in ATM to highlight the excellent abilities of medical tourism in Egypt. We are presently preparing an unique law for Medical Tourism in Egypt in regard to the worths and habits of solution carriers in this area. A functioning group consisting of Ministries of Tourism, Health, and Atmosphere has actually been developed to talk about methods to create tourism and arranging licenses to exercise this occupation along with methods to boost operating normal flights to some remote locations in Egypt that have strong components of medical tourist."

In the field of medical and therapeutic tourism, Ain Helwan's healing waters is among the most noticeable places for physical rehabilitation and rheumatism. There is also aquatic marine that has wells such as 'Wadi Halfa', the Roman wells and Siwa Oasis, which is famous for its mineral water, and Ain Safaga, which is just one of the very best places to deal with skin diseases such as Psoriasis and the therapy of rheumatoid.

Egyptian locations and destinations are so varied and can satisfy all assumptions and designs. Egypt's cultural prizes such as old Egyptian, Coptic and Islamic civilizations in numerous site visitors yearly. The nation is additionally known for its unique red sea and Mediterranean coastline hotels, experience and Safari attractions. Attractions include: Nuweibaa and Taba in the Gulf of Aqaba and other red sea beach resorts. An expanding need is seen on destinations such as Siwa, Dakhla, Al-Kharja in addition to other locations like Matrouh, Aswan and our a number of hill and valley arrays that are suitable for hiking and climbing up experiences. Furthermore, Egypt has a lot of potential when it concerns MICE tourism, and drew in significant conferences and events due its calculated area and advanced MICE infrastructure.

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