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...
- Marsa Matrouh Travel Special
Al Ahram Weekly Al Ahram Weekly has a travel supplement this week which looks at Marsa Matrouh (the biggest town of which is El Alamein). As well as details about Second Wolrd War cemeteries and museums there is also one article which covers the archaeological...
- 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...
- Tourism: Plans To Improve Hospitality Skills In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette (Ahmed Kamel) The story on this URL will expire shortly, so it is copied here in full. Egyptian Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah attended the signing of an agreement by chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Federation (ETF) Ahmed el-Nahas...
- Tourism: Volume Of Tourist Investments Hit Le 100 Billion
State Information Service "Investments in tourism domain reached now LE 100 billion," Minister of Tourism Zuhair Garana said during the inauguration of a resort in Ain Al-Sokhna area. The investments included 187,000 hotel rooms, the minister said adding...
Egypt
Tourism: New resort planned for Al Alamein
Bloomberg
Egyptian billionaire Ibrahim Kamel plans to build a $500 million seaside resort near the World War II battlefield of Al-Alamein that will compete with Red Sea vacation sites in Egypt.Kamel's Kato Group will construct 4,000 hotel rooms, a golf course, mall and entertainment complex in Ghazala Bay on the Mediterranean within five years, he said in an interview. Kamel, who is also chairman of Egypt's second-largest publicly traded hotel company, built a $45 million airport at Al-Alamein, a few kilometers from the resort, in 2005. . . .
The battlefield at Al-Alamein is where the Allies defeated General Irwin Rommel's Afrika Korps in 1942, reversing a German drive on the Suez Canal.The fighting, between General Bernard Montgomery's 8th Army and Rommel's divisions, began along a German defense line stretching some five miles inland from the sea.
Kamel, a former academic and a senior member of the country's ruling National Democratic Party, is chairman of Egyptian for Tourism Resorts.
- 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...
- Marsa Matrouh Travel Special
Al Ahram Weekly Al Ahram Weekly has a travel supplement this week which looks at Marsa Matrouh (the biggest town of which is El Alamein). As well as details about Second Wolrd War cemeteries and museums there is also one article which covers the archaeological...
- 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...
- Tourism: Plans To Improve Hospitality Skills In Egypt
Egyptian Gazette (Ahmed Kamel) The story on this URL will expire shortly, so it is copied here in full. Egyptian Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah attended the signing of an agreement by chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Federation (ETF) Ahmed el-Nahas...
- Tourism: Volume Of Tourist Investments Hit Le 100 Billion
State Information Service "Investments in tourism domain reached now LE 100 billion," Minister of Tourism Zuhair Garana said during the inauguration of a resort in Ain Al-Sokhna area. The investments included 187,000 hotel rooms, the minister said adding...