Egypt calls you in 2022 |GUIDE G Cantabria

Egypt prepares to celebrate 2022 in style with the inauguration of the great Egyptian museum, which will coincide with the 200th anniversary of the decipherment of the Rosetta and the centenary of the finding of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

2022 va ser un gran año para Egipto. Los terminados en 22 siempre han sido importantes. En 1822, el egiptólogo francés Jean-François Champollion anunció en París el descifrado de los textos jeroglíficos egipcios de la piedra de la Rosetta, que se había encontrado en 1799 en el delta del Nilo, fue uno de los grandes avances para comprender la civilización egipcia. Se encuentra en el Museo Británico, donde es la pieza más visitada.

In 1922 Howard Carter he discovered the almost intact tomb of Tutankhamun, in the course of excavations suffered by Lord Carnarvon in the Valley of the Kings;This is the greatest archaeological finding of all time with about 5.400 pieces of incalculable value, which today are the star of the Egyptian museum.And in 2022 the expected inauguration of the great Egyptian museum (Gem) which will be the largest archaeological museum in the world dedicated to a single civilization was announced.The museum, in which 1 have been invested.000 million dollars, occupies a land of about 50 hectares and is located two kilometers west of the Guiza Pyramids.There is already a date for the inauguration but you have to wait for the Egyptian President Abdelfatah El-Sisi to announce it in a solemn act.

This was summarized with an indissimulated pride, the impeccable and well prepared Minister of Tourism and Antiques of Egypt, Khaled El-Anany, accompanied by the new Egyptian ambassador to Spain, Youssef Mekkawy and Hamdi Zaki, former Minister of Tourism for many years inSpain and Portugal, at a press conference, organized by Open Communication, with the enthusiastic collaboration of Hamdi Zaki, at the Arab Casa in Madrid, which was attended by more than 90 journalists.

Much of the interest of the Spanish press is surely due to the great shows that Egypt has offered the world in recent times, such as the very recent inauguration of the Avenida de las Espinges that throughout 2.700 meters and flanked by more than a thousand sphinxes, links the pharaonic temples of Karnak and Luxor.It was built three millennia ago and for centuries it remained buried under hundreds of homes and buildings.Also a few months ago, dozens of television chains (the show was without audience because of the pandemic) broadcast the transfer of 22 pharaonic mummies from the Egyptian museum to their new place of rest at 5 km.away in the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization.

The merit of these events that have put Egypt again in the current focus, is due in large part to Minister Khaled El-Anany, with extensive academic training as an Egyptologist, archaeologist and university professor, who holds the archeology portfolio in theEgyptian government since 2016 to which in 2019 the tourism was added.And naturally archeology and tourism spoke in his appearance in Madrid, where he also attended the UNWTO assembly, together with colleagues around the world.With regard to archeology, the minister, who continues to include in his agenda on the foot of the search and research, said, somewhat enigmatic: at the beginning of 2022 we will announce some new important discovery.

One of Egypt's great concerns with its visitors is security, health and the other.Two thirds of the 1.200 hotels in the country are sanitary certified by the Government, which periodically inspects them to ensure that they are able to dispose of the Safe Travels label.The logo that look on their facades is a wink to the hieroglyphic language with three symbols that represent life, prosperity and health, locked inside a solar disc, drawn with the yellow sun of the sun and the sand and framed by the blue of the blue of the bluesea.

All workers in the tourism sector have been vaccinated, as well as their families and 45 million Egyptians have also received at least one dose.Tourists who arrive in the country must present a vaccination certificate or a negative PCR or make it when you arrive at the airport.Egypt has a relatively low incidence and offers full aid to the tourist who can get sick or have to keep quarantine, to the point that the Ministry of Health covers its stay in a hotel or hospital when necessary, including medication and meals.

On the other hand, the minister assured that the protection systems established in the worst years of revolts and terrorism remain in force, although that stage of violence has been far behind.Tourists traveling in groups are escorted by police or army cars, roads and tourist places have permanent surveillance and even some areas in the Red Sea have been fenced and guarded.As a summary, Dr. El-Anany challenged journalists to mention a single case of insecurity that a tourist has suffered in recent times.

The classic attractions of Egypt are well known and attract millions of tourists every year.The highest peak was achieved in 2010 with 14.700.000 tourists, but various problems made that figure fall in the following years, recovering already in 2019 with about 13 million.Then came the pandemic and the figure fell dramatically, as worldwide.Since June last year the number of tourists has grows again.2021 began with just 300.000 tourists per month, but October and November have been very positive, tripling those figures, and it is expected that in 2022, with the events that are announced, it may be a record year.

Culture, without a doubt, occupies a priority role in Egypt.There are more than 200 museums and archaeological sites available to the traveler, but also about 1.500 archaeological expeditions in which works are carried out, in several of them with Spanish groups.Even in leisure places, such as the spas of Sharm el-Sheij and Hurghada, museums with thousands of pieces have been inaugurated.But the country also bets on nature and sustainability.As an example of the latter, camel and horsepower have been banned in the main tourist places, including Giza's pyramids and many of the tourist excursions will be done in cars or electric vehicles and not using animals.Egypt will also host in 2022 the International Conference on Climate.

The almost 2.500 kilometers of coast that Egypt has in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea are the perfect scenario for all types of water sports.Egypt is probably the most popular destination among the divers of Europe and other countries.Unique wrecks, coral reef, hammer sharks, oceanic of white tips or fox sharks and millions of colored fish are the main attraction of places like Sharm el Sheikh, Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Safaga, El Gouna or Hamata.Also on the Red Sea coast are growing new cities such as New-Alamain and El-Galaia City, good examples of the country's future commitment.

Other examples of the most modern Egypt are the restoration of the Hindu -style pallow baron. Regis Cairo o Le Meridien Pyramids Hotel & Spa, entre los mejores del mundo.

The Minister of Archeology and Tourism marked the general lines that the country will follow as a tourist strategy that propose to show the world as an active, young, promising country with varied culture, cozy and tolerant.Khaled El-Anany recalled that his country has welcomed Greeks, Romans, Arab, Jews and Christians at different times.He gave as an example of the latter the inauguration in January 2019 by the President to the SISI and the Pope Copto Orthodox Tawadros II, of the new Copta Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, in the future administrative capital of Egypt that is being built in theproximities of Cairo.The minister also told what happened on January 10, 2020 when on the same day and in a three -hour space a new mosque was inaugurated in Cairo and a few hours later in Alexandria the Catholic Basilica of San Marcos and, just in front, aNew Jewish synagogue.For Christian tourists, he proposed the route of the sacred family that remained in Egypt for three and a half years and in all the places where there are now monuments, basilicas or museums dedicated to it.

Egypt has special interest in promoting the country among Spanish tourists.The Spaniards do not come to the beaches because they have them magnificent in their country, but they are interested in culture and the great pharaonic places.And the heat does not scare them.In southern Egypt in summer, with high temperatures, only Spanish is heard.However, the consequences of pandemic and the limitations imposed on trips have made only 35.000 Spaniards have traveled to Egypt this year, despite the increase in flight offers.Both the minister and the ambassador agreed that the foreseeable International Congress of FEPET (Spanish Federation of Journalists and Tourism Writers) proposed by its general director, Enrique Sancho, and the numerous reports that it will generate can help many more Spaniards beEncourage to travel to the country of the pharaohs.

Finally, the minister, the ambassador and Hamdi Zaki delivered a replica statuette of an Egyptian sculpture of the Egyptian museum collection and a papyrus-dipoma to Alfonso Martínez, director of Master Flight that has intensified flights to Egypt from Madrid and Barcelona, and also Enrique Sancho, in the words of Ambassador Mekkawy: "For spreading the Egyptian culture among the Spanish Parlantes and for their pharaonic collaboration to strengthen cultural ties between Egypt and Spain".