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- More Re The Threat To The Faiyum
Egypt Today (Farida Helmy) While the layman in Fayoum would probably welcome the idea of a project bringing in income and job opportunity to the quiet governorate, experts are far less eager. Fayoum is Egypt’s oldest city and is located 130 kilometers...
- Think Green Vs. Think Development
Egypt Today (Farida Helmy) Egypt is a naturalist’s dream. With oceans, oases, deserts and mountains a plenty, you would think eco-tourism would be big here. Much of the nation’s touristic income, however, comes from traditional, block hotel rooms...
- More Re Concerns Over Development In The Faiyum
Reuters (Patrick Werr) Egypt's popular uprising may have arrived just in time to save a Neolithic site that holds the country's oldest evidence of agriculture and could yield vital clues to the rise of Pharaonic civilisation. The site lies in...
- More Re Faiyum Archaeology And Ecology Under Threat
CairObserver Fayoum is a lush area around an ancient sea in the desert 130 kilometers south of Cairo. There is a small city and several villages. There are also natural reserves and bird areas, an artist village and Egypt’s caricature museum. This sounds...
- Le 20 Billion For Developing Tourism Movement In Al-fayoum
Egypt State Information Service During his meeting in Tourism, Media and Culture Committee of People's Assembly on 17/5/2008, Tourism Minister Zoheir Grana announced that the plan of developing the tourism movement in Al-Fayoum governorate is based...
Egypt
Egypt’s tourism minister left troubling situation
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Egypt’s former tourism minister, who was sentenced to five years in prison last week, has left a number of troubling business deals in his wake, including Porto Fayoum, a massive tourism development in a proposed world heritage site in Egypt’s Fayoum Oasis.
Mansour Amer of the Amer Group, who plans to build Porto Fayoum on 650 acres of pristine coast in Fayoum’s Lake Qarun protectorate, is also responsible for Porto Marina and Porto Sokhna, two huge tourism developments on Egypt’s North and Ain Sokhna coasts.
Former President Hosni Mubarak’s government sold Amer Group the land on Lake Qarun for only $28,000 ($.01 per square meter), according to Egypt’s American Chamber of Commerce.
Reports state that this is the first development of such massive proportions to be allowed in an Egyptian protected area.
- More Re The Threat To The Faiyum
Egypt Today (Farida Helmy) While the layman in Fayoum would probably welcome the idea of a project bringing in income and job opportunity to the quiet governorate, experts are far less eager. Fayoum is Egypt’s oldest city and is located 130 kilometers...
- Think Green Vs. Think Development
Egypt Today (Farida Helmy) Egypt is a naturalist’s dream. With oceans, oases, deserts and mountains a plenty, you would think eco-tourism would be big here. Much of the nation’s touristic income, however, comes from traditional, block hotel rooms...
- More Re Concerns Over Development In The Faiyum
Reuters (Patrick Werr) Egypt's popular uprising may have arrived just in time to save a Neolithic site that holds the country's oldest evidence of agriculture and could yield vital clues to the rise of Pharaonic civilisation. The site lies in...
- More Re Faiyum Archaeology And Ecology Under Threat
CairObserver Fayoum is a lush area around an ancient sea in the desert 130 kilometers south of Cairo. There is a small city and several villages. There are also natural reserves and bird areas, an artist village and Egypt’s caricature museum. This sounds...
- Le 20 Billion For Developing Tourism Movement In Al-fayoum
Egypt State Information Service During his meeting in Tourism, Media and Culture Committee of People's Assembly on 17/5/2008, Tourism Minister Zoheir Grana announced that the plan of developing the tourism movement in Al-Fayoum governorate is based...