By Akram Medhat
Minister of Tourism Yehia Rashed agreed, during his meeting with Jacopo De Ria, president of the Italian Federation of Travel and Tourism Agencies "FIAVET", and the federation's vice president Ivana Jelinic, to hold a meeting of the federation's board of directors in Aswan or Sharm El-Sheikh next November, which would be the biggest publicity for Egypt among travel companies in Italy. The meeting also addressed ways of boosting tourism between the two countries and opportunities to strengthen cooperation between the federation and the ministry.
It was also agreed to invite a group of Italian travel companies to another meeting next May to open channels of communication with them and introduce them to the beauty and diversity of the Egyptian tourist destination.
For his part, the president of the Italian federation of travel agencies said Egypt has a special place in his heart, as it was the first country he visited when he started working in tourism, noting the success of Egypt's participation in the Milan tourism exchange last April. He stressed that the Italian people love Egypt and want to visit it, pointing to the aim of cooperating directly with the ministry to promote the Egyptian tourist destination among Italian travel companies so as to put Egypt at the top of their tour programs in the coming period.
It is worth noting that the president of the Italian federation of travel agencies, his deputy and the accompanying media delegation visited the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir and the Pyramids archaeological area.
