Egypt
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- More Re Marina El-alamein
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Holidaymakers to Egypt's northern coast will have more to entertain them than sun, sand and sea later this summer. Starting in mid-September they can end a day spent on the beach by taking a virtual trip back to the...
- Egypt's New Desert Battle - Landmines In The Western Desert
You Tube - Al Jazeera (Ayman Moyheldin) I've posted about this before on my Egyptian Deserts blog, linking to several other stories. This is the area where the battle of el-Alamein was fought. Video. 3.33 minutes. An estimated 16 million landmines...
- Travel: Fields Of Valor - El-alamein
Egypt Today (Jeff Neumann) Along the Alexandria-Marsa Matruh Road, a plaque at kilometer 111 marks the furthest advance of the Axis armies after months of hard campaigning across North Africa. The surrounding area is the final resting place for tens of...
- 25 Million Tourists To Egypt By 2020
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Tourism Zohier Garana said in his meeting with members of the US Chamber of Commerce that the ministry aims to increase number of tourists in Egypt to reach 25 million tourists by year 2020. He said that...
- Emaar Misr Redevelops Birthplace Of Pyramids
ArabianBusiness.com (Rob Corder) Emaar Misr has unveiled its most ambitious project to date, a $2.1 billion mixed-use development in the Mokattam Mountains to the East of Cairo. Mokattam Mountains - which, at only 200 metres above sea level, are arguably...
Egypt
Heritage Management / Tourism: Clearing minefields of El Alamein
Scotsman
THE second Battle of El Alamein was a turning point in the Second World War. Montgomery's Desert Rats and the Allied Eighth Army broke through German lines, pushing Rommel's forces back to Tunisia and ending the Axis powers' designs on Middle East oilfields.
More than 65 years later, Egypt's north-west coastline remains riddled with the detritus of that war. But now the country is stepping up efforts to clear the area of the millions of landmines and lure tourists to its golden sands.
"This project opens a huge gate to the future," Mr Shazly said.
Eventually, developers believe the Mediterranean beaches, planned golf courses and marinas could rival the resorts that line the Red Sea coast to the south. . . .
Plans to build a golf course over part of the battlefield last year provoked fury from veterans' groups.
Although I categorized this partially as heritage management there appears to be very little intention (if any) to open up the battlefields themselves for visitors to experience or to pay their respects. As remarked in the above article, it was only an outcry from a veterans' group that prevented part of the battlefield being developed for golf. The mind boggles.
- More Re Marina El-alamein
Al Ahram Weekly (Nevine El-Aref) Holidaymakers to Egypt's northern coast will have more to entertain them than sun, sand and sea later this summer. Starting in mid-September they can end a day spent on the beach by taking a virtual trip back to the...
- Egypt's New Desert Battle - Landmines In The Western Desert
You Tube - Al Jazeera (Ayman Moyheldin) I've posted about this before on my Egyptian Deserts blog, linking to several other stories. This is the area where the battle of el-Alamein was fought. Video. 3.33 minutes. An estimated 16 million landmines...
- Travel: Fields Of Valor - El-alamein
Egypt Today (Jeff Neumann) Along the Alexandria-Marsa Matruh Road, a plaque at kilometer 111 marks the furthest advance of the Axis armies after months of hard campaigning across North Africa. The surrounding area is the final resting place for tens of...
- 25 Million Tourists To Egypt By 2020
Egypt State Information Service Minister of Tourism Zohier Garana said in his meeting with members of the US Chamber of Commerce that the ministry aims to increase number of tourists in Egypt to reach 25 million tourists by year 2020. He said that...
- Emaar Misr Redevelops Birthplace Of Pyramids
ArabianBusiness.com (Rob Corder) Emaar Misr has unveiled its most ambitious project to date, a $2.1 billion mixed-use development in the Mokattam Mountains to the East of Cairo. Mokattam Mountains - which, at only 200 metres above sea level, are arguably...