By Akram Medhat
Tomorrow, the 1,750 tourism companies organizing tourist Hajj programs for the 1438 AH/2017 season and the 108,473 citizens who applied for its various levels await the lottery draw, competing for 35,700 Hajj visas.
The public draw is scheduled to be held under the supervision of sovereign bodies to guarantee its integrity, at the Al Masa Hotel in Nasr City, Cairo, in the presence of Ministry of Tourism leaders and representatives of the Chamber of Tourism Companies at the Egyptian Tourism Federation.
To find out the tourist Hajj lottery results, click on the link below
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https://mot.hajj.gov.eg/umra/forms/index.aspx
It is worth noting that registration for citizens on the Interior Ministry's unified Hajj portal closed last June 20, and the economy level had the largest share of applicants, at 51,256 citizens competing for 11,000 visas.
The overland level came second with 37,382 registered citizens competing for 13,000 visas, which represent the largest share of tourism's quota of the total visas allocated to Egypt.
The 5-star tourist Hajj level drew 12,862 citizens targeting 7,800 visas, while the 4-star level was the least successful in attracting lottery registrants, with 6,973 citizens and a quota of 3,900 visas.
This season was marked by relatively weak demand compared with previous years as a result of higher prices for tourist Hajj programs, affected by the flotation of the pound, which caused the exchange rate of the Saudi riyal against it to double to about EGP 5.
