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12/09/2013

Dear Friends & Partners

Warm Greetings from Cairo …

We are pleased to share with you the most recent updates from Egypt related to the tourist movements and to the hospitality industry

Cairo as well as most of other Egypt’s provinces are witnessing a sensible stability condition, and had passed a relatively calm couple of weeks with less marches and demonstrations from the side of the political opposition movements, whilst the security authorities of all levels have been attentively alert for dealing with all conditions and situations.

The Red sea coastal resorts, as well as south Sinai continue to receive the European visitors including the Brits, Eastern Europe whom thankfully did not make any travel ban to the Red sea area, and starting from end of September, Charter operations are to be resumed from Germany & Italy and several other European countries which have recently released the travel ban to the Red sea area which was issued during the last couple of months. All roads leading to and from Cairo, Luxor and Aswan are open, and all tourist movements and excursion to and from the Red Sea Coastal resorts are permitted except during the curfew hours.

The ministry of antiquities together with tourism development authority and Egypt air are coordinating together and initiating a positive plan to invest all possible efforts and chances to restart operating tour programs with new promotions based on one day/ one night trips by air between the red sea resort areas and the major tourist attractions in Luxor, Aswan and Cairo, Egypt air is currently studying serious reductions with domestic airfares, the ministry of antiquities offered suggestions for group reductions up to 10% over the entry tickets to all historical sites and museums.

The monks of St. Katherine have decided to reopen the monastery and all its heritage to visitors as of yesterday afternoon, now it is fully operating at its scheduled normal hours as of today.

The minister of transportation announced that the railway authority have invested the time of the last three weeks to work seriously on enhancing the train services through a general maintenance plan, that was pre scheduled a few month ago, he also said that the train movement is ready to come back to normal after the maintenance plan is completed and fulfilled at the soonest possible expectations.

Wings Team – 11 September 2013

05/09/2013

Wings Group September 2013 News Letter Dedicated to Japan

お忙しく、暑い夏でしたが皆様においては
お元気にお過ごしと思います。

さて本日エジプトの観光に関する現在の状況を
簡単ですがご案内申し上げます。

A/　カイロ及び主要観光地

１／カイロー市内観光は通常通り
　　　　　ー博物館は通常通り　
　〈ただ、金曜日のみ集会等の問題があるような時は
　　　予告なく閉館されます。　
　　ウイングスとしては現在金曜日のエジプト博物館見学は
　　午前のみに行っております。）

２／ピラミッド、スフィンクス地区
　　通常通り０８００～１６００開いております。
　　ピラミッド入場、太陽の船博物館も通常通りです。）

３／市内運行
　　場所によっては検問が設けられますので
　　通常よりも時間がかかる場合があります。
　　従って、時間が決められている空港等への
　　時間は余分に見て下さい。

４／外出禁止時間は観光客の行動の制限は受けません。

５／アレクサンドリア
　通常通り
　ただ、アレキサンドリア　図書館のみ
　開館は　10:00~13:00 , 金、土　曜日はお休みです。

６／ルクソール
　　通常通り

７／アスワン、アブシンベル
　　通常通り

８／列車
　　カイロ～アスワン　等の運行は
　　まだ　正常にもどっておりません。
　　まもなく正常運行になるようです。


B/シナイ半島の情報です。

１／カイロ～サンタ　カタリナ　間

カイロからシャルムエルシェイク　経由のルートで運行できます。
〈時間は外出禁止指定時間内になります。すなわち
毎日朝6時から21時までの間で金曜日のみ夜19時まで）

２／サンタ　カタリナ　～タバ　間
　今まで通りのコンボイ時間を利用しての運行です

予定　 １０：３０発
１３：３０発

３／運行方法　
　　車、アシスタント、ガイド
　　セキュリティ官は当局の決定でのみ同行します。

４／サンタ　カタリナ修道院
　　現在は閉まっております。
　
５／シナイ山
　現在は通常通りの登山出来ます。
　（当日当局の時間等の変更がある場合もあります）

６／タバ国境
　現在は通常通りです。


以上ご参考にしていただければ幸いです。
よろしくお願い申しあげます。


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04/09/2013

False media reporting and politically motivated decisions have led to many governments banning or not recommending travel to The Red Sea area of Egypt even though not one single incident has occurred in the Red Sea area. We much like others living in Hurghada feel that an immediate change of policy needs to occur if many of the businesses are to survive this crisis. We are being punished for an incident that happened far away and it has totally decimated the tourist business in the Red Sea and other areas. Many locals employed in the hotels and businesses have lost their jobs and more than 40 hotels have closed. The foreign office of these countries need to lift the ban and to work with the Tour Operators to promote The Red Sea and Egypt as a safe place to holiday.

Please support Egypt

04/09/2013

King Ramses II Temple, Abu Simbel, Egypt

28/08/2013

When in Cairo, it is basically impossible to miss the Salah El-Din Citadel, one of the world’s greatest monuments to medieval warfare. Resembling a typical early medieval fortress, with large imposing gateways, towers and high defending walls, the Citadel is one of Cairo's main attractions and probably the most popular non-pharaonic monument in the Egyptian capital.

The prominent fortress houses three mosques – of which the impressive Mohamed Ali Mosque – a carriage museum, a military museum, and a garden museum, just to name a few, and they are all worth a visit.
You are even allowed the run of the fortifications and it is worth a try: the views are spectacular from this height.

The citadel is also home to the impressive Gawhara Palace (the Jewel Palace), named after Gawhara Hanem, Mohamed Ali's last wife. Built in 1814, it housed the ruler’s administration and was used as a personal residence by the Egyptian leader. Beautiful gold inscriptions adorn the walls of this majestic Ottoman-influenced palace. One of its most eccentric components is the Watch Hall, where the shape of a watch has been used to decorate the walls.