The Al Tayyar group of travel and tourism companies in Egypt held a ceremony honoring Yousry Abdel Wahab after Ashraf Sheiha succeeded him as head of the group, with Abdel Wahab moving up to the post of vice chairman of Al Tayyar Holding Egypt. The ceremony was attended by Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou, Minister of Civil Aviation Captain Hossam Kamal, and Ashraf Sheiha, head of the Al Tayyar travel and tourism group in Egypt, who presented him with the shield of honor.
The ceremony was attended by a number of experts and officials from the tourism and aviation sectors, most notably the head of the Chamber of Tourism Companies, Dr. Khaled El-Manawy; Nasser Turk, a member of the chamber's general assembly at the Egyptian Tourism Federation and head of the Arab tourism committee; Hassan Aziz, an aviation sector expert and former head of the Egyptian International Airline Company; Sami Mahmoud, head of the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority; tourism expert Sameh Saad, a former adviser to the Minister of Tourism; and a number of tourism company owners.
In his speech, Yousry Abdel Wahab said that tourism and aviation are two sides of the same coin, noting that Al Tayyar Group aims to bring in Arab tourism intensively, alongside European tourism, to help revive inbound tourist traffic to Egypt.
For his part, Minister of Tourism Hisham Zaazou said in his speech that companies are the ones that make tourism figures and that the ministry's role is to pave the way, stressing that tourism companies specialized in particular markets should be part of making marketing and promotion decisions in the countries from which they bring tourists.
In a related context, Minister of Civil Aviation Captain Hossam Kamal praised the role played by Al Tayyar Group in the tourism and aviation sectors, noting that experienced leadership such as Yousry Abdel Wahab is what leads large investment groups to success and expansion.
It is worth noting that the investments of Al Tayyar Holding Egypt amount to 8 billion pounds across various sectors, including tourism, aviation, real estate and industry, among others, with about 17 companies affiliated to it in addition to Al Hanouf Tourism.
These include two tourist villages, each owned by a company; Nile Air; two companies that own two plots of land on the Nile to build hotels in the Rod El-Farag area as part of the project to develop the area; a company managing a plot of land in Nasr City earmarked for a huge commercial project; a factory in Ain Sokhna for separating and packaging white sand; a stake in a landscaping company; a marble factory in Cairo; and an advertising agency called "Asiawi". This is in addition to seven independently managed companies in tourism, transport, limousine services, insurance, aircraft leasing and cargo, headed by Ashraf Sheiha.
