With all Egyptian tourism pilgrims of the 1447 AH-2026 Hajj season having arrived in the holy lands and settled in the approved hotels and towers across Makkah, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities' mission is preparing today to launch the stage of moving to Arafat to perform the greatest pillar of Hajj, in constant coordination with the official Egyptian Hajj mission, the relevant Saudi authorities and the travel companies implementing Egyptian tourism Hajj programs.
For her part, Samia Samy, Assistant Minister of Tourism and Antiquities for Travel Company Affairs, Head of the Egyptian Tourist Hajj Affairs Office and Head of the Supreme Committee for Umrah and Hajj, explained that Egyptian tourism pilgrims this season total 40,713, and their accommodation in approved hotels in Makkah has been completed without any issues. She noted that the accommodation map was distributed across two main areas of Makkah based on the nature of the approved programs and the level of services contracted with travel companies.
She added that the Aziziyah area received the largest number of economy and land program pilgrims, while the Ajyad and Misfalah areas housed 5-star program pilgrims as well as economy and land programs given their proximity to the Grand Mosque, achieving a balanced distribution that takes into account each program's specifics and meets pilgrims' expectations according to the contracted level.
She noted that the mission's committees were present in the field around the clock at the various hotels and accommodation sites to follow pilgrims' conditions and secure transport to and from the Grand Mosque during prayer times.
In a related context, and completing the plan to secure treatment services for Egyptian tourism pilgrims this season, two medical clinics have been set up in Makkah to serve pilgrims, in cooperation and coordination between the ministry's tourism Hajj mission and the Egyptian medical mission of the Ministry of Health and Population present in the holy lands.
The first clinic is located at the Abraj Al Qaswa hotel in Ajyad, while the second is at Al Raqi Al Mumayaz hotel in Aziziyah. The two locations were chosen based on a study of the tourism pilgrims' accommodation map in Makkah, covering the largest share of their accommodation, ensuring treatment services reach as many of them as possible quickly and easing their access to the necessary medical care.
The two clinics have sufficient stocks of medicines and medical supplies and are staffed around the clock by a full team of doctors from the Egyptian medical mission, who examine cases and dispense the necessary treatment free of charge, in constant coordination between the ministry's mission committees and the medical mission, as well as travel company supervisors staying at surrounding hotels, ensuring the best level of medical services for Egyptian tourism pilgrims.
It is worth noting that the ministry's mission continues its preparations for the holy sites stage through 12 field committees deployed in Egyptian tourism pilgrims' camps in Mina and Arafat to monitor and oversee travel companies' implementation of the programs they offer pilgrims throughout the rituals.
