Tourism and Archeology

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  • 11 countries participate in submerged monuments international conference in alex. -- Official

    Date: 2016-10-31 20:40:50 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:90 - ID:5876633

    ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) – Head of submerged monuments central department Mohamed Mostafa Abdel Magid said that researchers from 11 countries are participating in the international conference for submerged monuments. On the sidelines of ....

  • Official says 34,000 tourists visited Luxor in October

    Date: 2016-10-31 20:35:05 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:88 - ID:5876701

    LUXOR, Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) - Around 34,000 tourists visited Luxor in October, an antiquities official said. Nearly 30,000 foreign tourists and more than 4,000 Egyptians visited the Upper Egyptian city in October, said Mostafa Waziri, the Luxor ....

  • UNWTO keen on supporting Egypt tourism sector: official

    Date: 2016-10-31 19:59:01 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:78 - ID:5875773

    LUXOR, Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) – An official of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) on Monday said that the organization will continue to support Egypt until its tourism crisis is over. UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai, on the fringe of the ....

  • Egypt capable of securing visitors, events – Sudanese tourism min.

    Date: 2016-10-31 19:12:20 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:68 - ID:5874801

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) – Egypt is capable of protecting visitors and all events on its land as choosing Luxor to host the Global Summit on City Tourism is a good decision, Sudanese Minister of Tourism, Antiquities and Wildlife Mohammed ....

  • Tourism minister opens UNWTO session in Luxor

    Date: 2016-10-31 14:55:11 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:53 - ID:5873465

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Oct 31 (MENA) – Tourism Minister Mohamed Yehia Rashed opened Monday the 104th session of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Executive Council in Luxor. The event is attended by representatives of 50 countries and over 170 ....

  • Decree on establishing Grand Egyptian Museum authority

    Date: 2016-10-31 13:26:46 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:48 - ID:5872761

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) – Prime Minister Sherif Ismail issued a decision to establish a general authority named the “Grand Egyptian Museum” and to be affiliated with the antiquities ministy and to have the staus of legal personality. The site chosen ....

  • Antiquities Minister opens Alexandria conference for sunken artefacts

    Date: 2016-10-31 12:36:40 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:43 - ID:5872289

    ALEXANDRIA, Oct 31 (MENA) - Antiquities Minister Khaled el Enani opened on Monday Alexandria International Conference on Maritime and Underwater Archaeology. Enani expressed happiness of holding this conference for the first time in the coastal ....

  • Ministry of Antiquities halts cooperation with Toledo Museum of Art

    Date: 2016-10-31 10:02:10 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:21 - ID:5871361

    CAIRO, Oct 31 (MENA) - The Ministry of Antiquities won't have any future cooperation with the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio following two auctions organized by the museum to sell some Egyptian, Cypriot and Italian monuments, a senior official has ....

  • Argentinian minister: Egypt is top tourist destination

    Date: 2016-10-31 08:26:04 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:12 - ID:5870733

    LUXOR, Oct 31 (MENA) - Argentinian Tourism Minister Gustavo Santos, who is currently visiting Egypt for the first time, said Egypt is a top tourist destination, stressing that he did not notice anything negative that could ban tourists from visiting ....

  • UNWTO meeting in Luxor sends message of reassurance to world – tourism min.

    Date: 2016-10-30 22:48:07 GMT - Egypt - Tourism and Archeology - SN:100 - ID:5869597

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Oct 30 (MENA) – The convention of the 104th session of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Executive Council in Luxor sends a message to the world that Egypt is safe, Tourism Minister Mohamed Yehia Rashed said. Rashed gave ....

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