Chamber of Tourism Companies: 500 Saudi agents authorized to organize Umrah programs in the holy lands
The Chamber of Tourism Companies this evening closed registration on the Egyptian Umrah Portal for Egyptian and Saudi tourism companies authorized to organize Umrah trips for the 1441 AH season, with the number of Egyptian companies registered reaching 1,833, in addition to 500 Saudi companies and establishments.
The chamber's Religious Tourism Committee notified the Companies Sector at the Ministry of Tourism of these numbers to finalize their registration on the Egyptian Umrah Portal ahead of the start of the season. The portal is expected to be launched and begin operating in the next few days, and Umrah trips will be organized only through the companies registered on the portal.
In this context, the Chamber of Tourism Companies announced that the registration of Egyptian companies aims to make things easier for Egyptian pilgrims by bringing together all the companies authorized to organize Umrah on a single platform to choose from, excluding unlicensed companies, as well as protecting citizens' rights, while the registration of Saudi companies and establishments on the portal is to ensure a choice among these agents and to exclude any agent proven to have violated its contracts with Egyptian companies or to have fallen short on pilgrims' rights.
The chamber called on all citizens wishing to perform Umrah to log on to the Egyptian Umrah Portal, choose among the companies registered on it and review all the programs of the registered tourism companies in full detail, in terms of price, timings and accommodation, to choose among them, while making sure the company commits to all details of the trip. It stressed that this system operates under the continuous supervision of the Ministry of Tourism, in coordination with the Chamber of Companies, from the time of contracting with the pilgrim, throughout their travel and until their safe return.
The chamber launched a media campaign to raise pilgrims' awareness of and introduce them to the Egyptian Umrah Portal and the steps for booking programs on it, and to make sure of copies of their barcode before travel and hand it over to the tourism company they will travel with. It also called on citizens to stay away from brokers and middlemen so as not to pay higher costs and so that their rights are not lost.
