Data and figures about tourism in Egypt

"Arab tourists come on top of our priorities is not the links of cultural, national, and by, but because the Arab tourists also a longer and more spending, and thus is the most-favored a national first-class house in Egypt, the Arabs."

"We're a few years ago we urge the Egyptian tourism sector to understand the dimensions of the current developments and future global tourism market and urge him to prepare for them through the process of concentration and integration into larger entities to be able to work in all circumstances."

Data show that the Central Bank of Egypt tourism revenues in 1999/2000 was 4314 million, and payments were 1028 million dollars, and became a surplus of $ 3286 million, representing a rate of 76.3% of the total revenue. In fiscal year 2000/2001 revenues were U.S. $ 4317 million and 1054 million dollars of payments surplus of 3263 by 75.6% of total revenue.

Labor-intensive tourism industry and a multiplier effect on 70 industries and services and complementary feeding (study of the World Tourism Organization), which provide employment opportunities and careers in the activities of multiple direct and indirect.

Tourism activities are more environmentally friendly, self-investor is committed to preserving the environment because it is marketed as a component of the tourism product, and maintain because it is the background that can not be without them to sell tourism products in the present or the future.

The raised that domestic investment still represents 83% of the volume of investment in the tourism sector does not reflect the realities of investment in this activity is inherently attractive to foreign investment and suffice it to recall the exact figures are available and documented on the investments made in the areas of the Tourism Development Authority, which increased the hotel capacity to 32 thousand hotel rooms, as they represent Arab and foreign investments in which 32% of the total cost of $ 6.23 billion pounds, other than the cost of infrastructure, facilities and services.

It is hoped that the inclusion of the Ministry call for more investment in tourism development in Egypt under the revitalization plan and promotion, carried out in foreign markets as one of the attractions to a significant increase in that ratio, especially in light of the changes that began in the direction of investment flows at the international level since the events of September 2001.

Beltagui

Egyptian Tourism Minister and former Minister of Information, the current

III: Plans for future tourist

The future development plan prepared by the Tourism Development Authority until 2017 to divide the region into six tourist centers include a new lump (10 thousand) hotel rooms, services and facilities of each center, including such services and facilities, desalination plants and sanitation, energy, and Dial-up networking, wireless and divided these centers separated by areas of natural insulation as follows:

1 - Al Ain Sukhna: 1500 Chamber of the beach area and 500 rooms in the region the background.

2 - Majesty: 800-room beach area and 200 rooms in the region the background.

3 - Center north of Abu stairs: and 1000 hotel rooms in the front and 600 hotel rooms in the villages built on mountain and will be expanded this center within the region and desert dune valley in order to organize safaris and adventures and the establishment of the desert villages.

4 - Center south of Abu stairs: with 1200 hotel rooms the beach area which is characterized by Bhiabha rock formations and rare.

5 - Center Houri: includes 1500 rooms hotel in the beach.

6 - Center Jerivat: includes 1300 hotel rooms in the beach area.

7 - Status of the northern ÇáÒÚÝÑÇäÉ: and 1000 hotel rooms in the area of the beach.

Incentives and facilities for investment in tourism

The government placed on the list of policy priorities to encourage the private sector domestic and international, to invest in various sectors of production and services and play a greater role in the development of national economy, and for that the government gives investors a package of incentives, exemptions and facilities, providing for the establishment of tourism projects to be held desert areas such as Al Ain Sokhna and Zafarana the following incentives:

1 - exemption from profit tax for a period of ten years starting from the fiscal year that comes after the startup.

2 - the possibility to renew the exemption from profit tax for five more years with the consent of the Council of Ministers.

3 - Exemption from stamp tax on capital.

4 - Exemption from stamp tax and registration requirements for all construction contracts until the date on which the implementation of the project.

Tourism in Egypt .. Mother of the World Commission on Land

Egypt is one of the most prominent tourist attractions in the world because of its many tourist treasures of faces, the most important cultural tourism, where lie the ancient civilizations of the eye, and speak what it was that the nations that built civilizations since the dawn of history.

Adjacent to the old cultural tourism product, the accumulation of a tender of those civilizations was stored in the unique heritage of humanity expressed in the lives of the Egyptians, rich and diverse patterns of distinct natures, manners and customs of the Egyptians made the same passions Basarp legacy of ancient civilizations, a tourist attraction alone.

Did not skimp on Egypt Battaiha nature has given by God - Glory be to Him - in the distinctive nature of enticing eyes and hearts, and not only the beauty and magic of the Nile as soon as the pot forever settle it, but spread the beauty of Egypt to decorate Sahaliha on the Mediterranean and the Red and dive deep into their level and spread in the desert and to do that Address all months .. Egypt genius of the place, Egypt is well known .. The most famous in history .. Fronia and Greeks, Romania and the Arab and Islamic.

In philanthropy is a laboratory product and store cultural and humanitarian situation in Arab thought and literature, politics, art, journalism, architecture, unique to Egypt has frequently attractive regions for tourism.

Coupled with this enormous ingredients of the product of the Egyptian tourism developed infrastructure and modern facilities, installations and services requirements of the various high-end tourism from a wide range of luxury international hotels to the transport network, air, land and sea and river and to the excellent communication facilities and centers, tourist guidance making a visit to the tourist to Egypt for whatever purpose and purpose of a visit full of fun and excitement and interest.