By Akram Medhat
Minister of Tourism Yehia Rashed yesterday received Miss Universe 2017 Iris Mittenaere during her tour of the Pyramids area, in a meeting also attended by MP Sahar Talaat Mostafa, head of the Tourism and Aviation Committee in the House of Representatives. The visit is part of a tour program organized by the Egyptian Tourism Promotion Authority for the beauty queen, which includes Alexandria, the Pyramids and the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir.
The beauty queen expressed her happiness at visiting Egypt, which she considers a dream, stressing that she felt safe during the visit and voicing her love for ancient Egyptian civilization, which she came to know and love through her father, who was a history teacher. She noted the French people's fascination with ancient Egyptian civilization and their desire to learn more about it.
Iris Mittenaere will promote visiting Egypt through her social media page by inviting her followers to visit Egyptian tourist destinations.
It is worth noting that this visit comes within the tourism promotion plan of inviting world celebrities from various fields and organizing their visits so that they become ambassadors for Egyptian tourism when they return to their countries, by conveying a true picture of the tourism experience they had in the Egyptian destination, which makes such visits an important promotional tool.
