Prime Minister Dr. Mostafa Madbouly held a meeting today to follow up on efforts to maximize the tourism benefits of the Holy Family route, attended by Dr. Manal Awad, Minister of Local Development and Acting Minister of Environment; Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities; tourism investor Mounir Ghabbour; and officials from a number of relevant bodies. The governors of Cairo, Beheira, Minya, Assiut, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sharqia, Gharbia, Port Said, North Sinai, Qalyubia and Dakahlia also took part via video conference.
The Prime Minister said today's meeting follows previous meetings and talks held on this important file, noting that a number of proposals submitted by a group of leading private-sector institutions in the tourism sector had previously been discussed and reviewed, for implementing a number of tourism projects linked to "Reviving the Holy Family Route". In this regard, he praised the good proposals and ideas that were submitted, stressing that the aim at this stage is to maximize the benefit of the various tourism and development projects being implemented along the route, in a way that helps increase the number of tourists heading to it.
During the meeting, the Minister of Local Development noted that a meeting had previously been held with a number of tourism investors, where many ideas and proposals were put forward that would enhance the tourism role of the Holy Family route, stressing that the state has implemented a number of projects as part of efforts to revive the route in various governorates.
During the meeting, Dr. Manal Awad reviewed the implementation status of the project to revive the Holy Family route, noting that it is a national project with a global religious and tourism dimension.
The Minister of Local Development added that the project to revive the Holy Family route in Egypt aims to achieve sustainable development in the areas along the route by stimulating religious tourism and providing more job opportunities for the people of villages and cities through establishing numerous small and medium-sized projects linked to tourist traffic on the route.
The minister reviewed the most notable development, rehabilitation and revival works carried out at the various sites of the Holy Family route and their surrounding areas. The governors also reviewed the efforts being made at various sites along the Holy Family route in Egypt, as part of the state's efforts to revive the route to attract more tourist traffic and achieve further development along it.
For his part, Mounir Ghabbour put forward a number of proposals and ideas for tourism and development projects that would help preserve the various points and sites of the Holy Family route in Egypt and document the family's various stations during its journey within Egypt, as well as revive this important route, helping increase the volume of inbound tourism to visit it.
At the end of the meeting, the Prime Minister directed that the necessary feasibility studies be prepared for the projects proposed by the investor, while working to remove any obstacles or challenges in this regard, stressing that the goal is to give a strong boost to this important sector in order to achieve more targets, according to the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Cabinet.
