{"id":81853,"date":"2024-08-22T01:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/?p=81853"},"modified":"2024-08-22T01:28:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T22:28:30","slug":"increasing-number-of-turkish-tourists-visiting-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/?p=81853","title":{"rendered":"Increasing number of Turkish tourists visiting Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The number of tourists heading from Turkey to Egypt has increased significantly, thanks to the Egyptian facilities in obtaining its visa for Turkish citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>For his part, the CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority, Amr El-Kady, stated that Egypt received about 100,000 Turkish tourists in the seven months of this year, and that this number is expected to rise to 250,000 Turkish tourists by the end of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Egyptian government has launched many initiatives to revive tourism, the judge added, saying: \u201cNow when you work on infrastructure such as roads, highways, airports and hotels, it is good for the citizen as well as for tourists. Secondly, we have a new investment incentive to build hotels. When you build a new hotel but you do it quickly, you get part of the interest rate. If you go to your bank, get a loan, pay interest, and build quickly, the government will actually pay almost 40 percent of the interest rate.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The judge referred to the flight incentive programs offered to tourists, stating that this means paying part of the cost of each airline that has flights to Cairo Airport, thus making flying less expensive, which facilitates the arrival of tourists to Egypt at a lower cost.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The judge touched on tourism programs in Egypt, saying: \u201cWe want to focus more on Sharm El-Sheikh, El Gouna or Luxor, and provide more incentives for this matter. The number of travelers has not decreased despite the developments in Gaza. Yes, of course everyone has been affected, the Russian-Ukrainian war and then the situation in Gaza, all of these things have affected tourism, but they have not affected Egypt much.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Egypt announced in mid-April that it would allow Turkish tourists coming to Egypt to obtain a visa upon arrival.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of tourists heading from Turkey to Egypt has increased significantly, thanks to the Egyptian facilities in obtaining its visa for Turkish citizens. For his part, the CEO of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority, Amr El-Kady, stated that Egypt received about 100,000 Turkish tourists in the seven months of this year, and that this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link block-button\" href=\"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/?p=81853\">\u0625\u0642\u0631\u0623 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0632\u064a\u062f &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81855,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853\/revisions\/81855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gulf-tourism.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}