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The Fairmont Nile City has been location for various movie and TV shoots including Gabel El Halal, Baba, Relam, and more. Some of the hotel's famous guests include Lucy Liu, Samuel L. Jackson, and Salma Hayek. The hotel is infamous for the 2014 Cairo hotel gang rape case, in which a young woman was gangraped by several men from wealthy families ...
Firmly on the tourism map since the arrival of an international airport in 2001, Marsa Alam rivals the big names of Hurghada and Sharm while maintaining a quieter ambience and slower pace of life ...
Seaside resorts in Egypt (3 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Resorts in Egypt" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Pages in category "Seaside resorts in Egypt" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baltim; D.
Tourism is one of the leading sources of income, crucial to Egypt's economy.At its peak in 2010, the sector employed about 12% of workforce of Egypt, [1] serving approximately 14.7 million visitors to Egypt, and providing revenues of nearly $12.5 billion [2] as well as contributing more than 11% of GDP and 14.4% of foreign currency revenues.
Hurghada (/ h ər ˈ ɡ æ d ə,-ˈ ɡ ɑː-/; Arabic: الغردقة al-Ġhardaqah, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [el ɣæɾˈdæʔæ]) is a coastal city that serves as the largest city and capital of the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. Hurghada has grown from a small fishing village to one of the largest resort destinations along the Red Sea ...
Egypt ratified the convention on 7 February 1974, the second country to do so after the United States. [3] There are seven World Heritage Sites in Egypt, and a further 34 sites on the tentative list. [4] The first sites in Egypt were listed in 1979, when five properties were inscribed.
Several centuries after Herodotus, the Greek geographer Strabo (c. 64 BC – c. 24 AD) described the labyrinth in his work Geographica, noting a connection between the number of the structure's courts and the nomes of ancient Egypt: We have [near Lake Moeris] also the Labyrinth, a work equal to the Pyramids, and adjoining to it the tomb of the ...