Tourism in Egypt is considered one of the most important sources of national income, including availability of dollar annual revenues, and revenues in foreign currency, which enabled it to participate significantly to GDP, and the fight against unemployment by hiring a large segment of the labor force in Egypt. Egypt, one of the leading tourist countries in the world including acquires it from the number of tourist arrivals in the world, apart abundant tourist attractions of all kinds, and the proliferation of temples, museums, monuments and historical buildings, art and gardens, vast on its land, and ownership of the structure of a strong infrastructure is based on the tourism sector service including hotel rooms, villages and tourist resorts and travel agencies and airline offices, and is the regions Luxor, Aswan, Cairo, Alexandria, the northern coast, the Red Sea, South Sinai of the most attractive places for tourists in Aam.oaaud the history of tourism in Egypt to the ancient Egyptians, and continued as a destination and a popular tourist desirable over the past centuries, and through contemporary history. UNESCO chose six Egyptian cultural heritage sites varied between ancient Egyptian and Coptic and Islamic site in addition to the natural heritage as part of the list of World Heritage Sites.
Tourism phenomenon evolved in Egypt in ancient times, and in March the ancient Egyptians many leisure activities, and clung to sports tourism in its various forms and is interested intellectuals and clerics, cultural tourism, and spread the Nile across the state tourism, and a delegation to Egypt, a large number of foreign territories with the aim of medical tourism, as active globetrotters movement between different regions of Egypt, recorded archaeological panels international relations between Egypt and Syria on the one hand the old on the other hand, during which they exchanged visits, which have had all the characteristics of modern tourism Bmudallolha. During the Middle Ages, Egypt witnessed a brighter tourism periods as a result of activity nomadic and breadth of the Arab flight circle after the advent of Islam and its spread and spill-over of the Islamic state between the Indian sub-continent, North Africa and Southern Europe, and the Cairo of the most important cultural and cultural centers in the Islamic state and the most affluent similar to several capitals of the Islamic other, and the palaces and gardens and libraries attractions that have attracted large numbers of tourists, as the economic boom and the establishment of security and the desire for knowledge in vogue tourism and activity trips and pluralism in Egypt during that period contributed.
It increased importance of Egypt's tourism since the end of the eighteenth century and during the nineteenth century, and is attributed to several factors, including the French campaign that restored contact between the Egyptian and ancient civilization through the accompanying scientists of the campaign who studied Egyptian civilization and have uncovered a lot of valuable relics, and gave Egypt to the West through books such as talking about a book Description of Egypt, which led to her fame and publicity draw the attention of European countries to.
The arrival of Muhammad Ali to the rule of Egypt returned attention to the tourism movement, he established in 1845 "password interest" to oversee the land route Mosul to India and work for tourists, mail and goods, and relied upon in the supervision of breaks desert, horses, vehicles and food tourists, and to regulate traffic on the overland route between the city of Cairo and the cities of Suez, Alexandria and put telegraphic towers for reporting the arrival of the ships and tourist groups, as Hdit hotels equipped for overnight stay tourists.
And witnessed the reign of Abbas I special tourism interest and provide the necessary movements tourist facilities, and was paving Cairo / Suez stones through, and put the first private organization of stay of foreign tourists in Egypt in May 1849. The list also Said Pasha marched on his predecessors approach he issued in March 1857 Regulation Saidia organized matters relating to tourists since their arrival to Egypt and during their stay until their departure. And the influx of foreigners to Egypt during the reign of Khedive Ismail, whether for business or tourism, and helped the tourism influx to Egypt during that period participation of international exhibitions, and use the occasion of the opening of the Suez Canal to international navigation publicity for Egypt tourism.
Infrastructure
Capacity increased to hotels in Egypt during the first of the twenty-first century, the contract quickly, bringing the total number of hotels in 2008 to 1490 is located opposite 914 Hotel in 1999 and 1207 in 2004, and increased the number of hotel rooms to 211 thousand in 2008, compared to 94 thousand rooms in 1999 and 148 thousand in 2004. as the supply side saw in the tourism sector is a remarkable growth in the number of travel agencies during the period from 2004 to 2008.
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