Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly held the weekly press conference last night following the cabinet meeting at the government headquarters in the New Administrative Capital. He referred to the meeting held to review the plan to develop the area surrounding the Pyramids Plateau, an area for which an international consultancy has been commissioned to prepare an integrated vision and determine how to make use of it to maximize tourism revenue and add a number of hotel rooms, in addition to offering many new tourism and entertainment activities in the area, building on the work done in the Pyramids area itself and the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum.
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly pointed to ambitious estimates for building more than 10,000 hotel rooms in the area surrounding the Pyramids and other places, affirming that the state has begun implementing this in partnership with the private sector.
Regarding the area of historic and Islamic Cairo, the Prime Minister stressed the attention and appreciation this area enjoys among all Egyptians, noting his visit to the area and his inspection of a number of projects the state is implementing there, including the restoration of historic monuments and the reconstruction of some buildings in the area that had been demolished, while taking into account the urban fabric and the nature of the area's road and street network. "We are working to restore the original to what it was within this area," he said, adding that the reconstructed buildings will also be put to maximum use by establishing hotel units in them, to attract more tourist traffic to this promising area.
Dr. Mostafa Madbouly concluded by affirming that the government will continue its intensive efforts to revive historic and Islamic Cairo in the desired manner that achieves the targeted tourism returns, adding that the tourism sector is currently witnessing a growing boom, and pointing to the government's vision of doubling the number of tourists in the next few years. That is according to the official page of the Egyptian Prime Minister's Office on Facebook. To view the Prime Minister's statements, click here.
