Egypt Travel

Egypt Tourism Statistics Surpassing Expectations

Egypt is optimistic that despite the current challenges affecting its political climate, there will be a steady increase in the number of tourists visiting the country in the year 2012.

Cairo Citadel

The 2011 statistics for Tourist arrivals in Egypt shows that despite the political crisis, there were over 9.8 Million worldwide visitors to the country last year. Out of these total visitors, over 184 thousands were American tourists who stayed close to 3.0 million tourist nights.
Egypt continues to be a premier destination for the American Market as it offers Americans great value for their dollar, exceeding expectations for its excellent, diverse, and high quality tourism products.

Travel Advisories to Egypt Lifted

Travel Advisories lifted by the Canadian and the Hungarian government. Canada and Hungary no longer advises against traveling to Sharm El Sheikh , Hurghada, Luxor & Aswan Last Friday, April 22 a delegation of U.S. travel leaders embarked on “Restoring the Journey”, a move to support Egypt Tourism and travel, with a six-day visit of the tourism infrastructure of Egypt. On a mission to review the region’s timeless appeal and assess current travel conditions, the delegation includes leaders of the top three outbound producing travel associations— United States Tour Operators Association, NTA, and American Society of Israel Travel Agents —along with other association heads, tour operators and travel journalists. Already in Egypt, they have met with the Minister of Tourism, H.E. Mounir Fakhry AbdelNour, the Chairman of the Egyptian Tourist Authority, Mr. Amr ElEzabi, the US Ambassador to Egypt, H.E. Margaret Scobey, as well as the Minister of Antiquities, Dr. Zahi Hawass.

Christian travel to Egypt

Egypt is a popular land for tourism and many people go there for different reasons. Religious tours are one form of traveling in Egypt because of many monuments and historic places. Mainly, Christians, Muslims and Jewish travel to Egypt because they have many religious and historic monuments and lands located there. Among all of them, Christian tours are more common because they are found in majority in world and they are also interested to see the Jewish and Islamic places in Egypt along with Christianity related places.
Many Christian people love to go for touring on the route of a Exodus Tour and another popular tour to follow by Christian people in Egypt is the Route of Holy Family in Egypt which includes the Jesus, Mary and Joseph. This route is specifically interested for Christian, though, Muslims also believe in Jesus as the prophet. In such tours, usually Christians go to ancient churches and monasteries. Christians also go to the places which are mentioned in there Bible, even if they are relating to Jewish.

So, you want to know what the churches and monasteries are which Christians want to look at. There are numerous ancient churches and some religious group prefer one while some prefer others. Most of them are located in the city of Old Cairo or in nearby areas. Fort Babylon district is much popular for the Christian churches. The Coptic Museum and the Ben Ezer is also popular in the Christian tours in Egypt. Haret Zuwaila is another popular place of Christians traveling to Egypt. All of these churches and monasteries are still active in modern days.

Outside the Cairo, the most popular monument located at Saqqarah is Monastery of St. Jeremy. There are some monasteries at Fayoum Oasis. These places are uninhabited now days and only few people travel to see these places. Beside Christian locations, Christians are also interested to look at Pyramids and Pharaoh cultural stuff as well as Islamic monuments in Egypt.