Tourism in Egypt

Tourism is one of the most important sources of national income in Egypt, and the Egyptian people are accustomed to the presence of tourists in their midst since ancient times. Egypt is characterized by an abundance of tourist attractions of all kinds, because of the abundance of temples and Alotharōhnak also Pharaonic Village, which a lot of statues of Pharaonic take care of it and invested tourist attraction, is also available tourism infrastructure, which includes star hotels, tourist villages and tourist agencies and airline offices, and is considered a tourist congestion year in Cairo, Alexandria and the Red Sea Governorate, Hurghada and the Sinai and South Sinai, particularly in Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Nuweiba, where sports sport diving, which attracts tourists from around the world, particularly from Germany and Italy are a fan of this kind of sports, where that Egypt is characterized by coral reefs, rare in the Red Sea and the types of fish that they held festivals and competitions fishing yacht, which comes to fishing enthusiasts of Egyptians and foreigners. 

As Egypt is one of the most prominent tourist country in the world where the number of tourists visiting Egypt more than 10.5 million tourists in 2013, and ranked No. 22 in terms of the number of tourists and the order of 32 in terms of income.

The northern coast of Matrouh and Rasheed

The province is one of the largest governorates of Egypt and includes about half of the coast of Egypt on the Mediterranean Sea, and there to maintain a large number of tourist resorts including Marakia and Mina and Resort Marina El Alamein, this addition to the tourist resort great work is done by Emaar Properties, the UAE ..., also the city of Mersa Matruh and its environs are among the favorite destinations for the Egyptians to spend a summer vacation, and the city has witnessed in recent years, the influx of large numbers of foreign tourists, particularly Europeans on them, and contain Matrouh Governorate on the white sandy beaches and coast clean is one of the cleanest beaches of the Mediterranean Sea at all, there are also in the area of ​​El Alamein graves of World War II, which took place one of the main battles in the area of ​​El Alamein between Allied and axis forces either from the city of Rashid archaeological they are a historic city and is the third city relics in Egypt found out the Rosetta Stone, which he found one officers of the French campaign and found him in a castle in the western shore Nile Bey Citadel. In Rashid also a large number of relics, including the Mosque and the Mosque of Abu Zaghloul Mandour and mill Abu Shahin and bath Azzouz and others will be held in the current period, modification and maintenance of a large number of traces Rasheed because Rasheed archaeological city will have to map the Egyptian tourism soon.

Religious tourism

There are several aspects of tourism in Egypt, including the tourism of a religious nature, which include visiting sites with connotations or religious significance in the three religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, for example, multiple places of significance of Egypt's Islamic mismatch mosque of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed bin Abdullah, peace be upon him in Cairo "where there is a tomb featuring the head", in addition to historic mosques such as the Mosque of Ibn Tulun and Al-Azhar mosque and the walls of historic Cairo and the Citadel of Saladin, and there are sites of religious significance Christian church of St. Sergius, which resorted to the Holy Family during the resort to Egypt and the Hanging Church and Monastery of St. Catherine's Monastery Saint Anthony, founder of monasticism and Deir Anba Paula in the Red Sea, as well as the Monastery of the Virgin Mary Muharraq Monastery Dronka in Assiut and many monasteries and churches, archaeological innumerable There is also sites of religious significance Jewish in Egypt, such as Mount Moses in the Sinai synagogue Ben Ezra in ancient Egypt in Cairo where there is a deep well adjacent to the Jews believe "that the mother of the Prophet Moses was in store for fear of the Pharaoh" and synagogue Shaarei Hmaam "heaven's Gate" in central Cairo synagogue and Yahoo Hanaba Prophet Daniel Street, Menasha and synagogue in Alexandria.