February 22, 2020.16:43
At the invitation of Greece, Egyptian Minister of
Tourism and Antiquities Khaled Anani visited Athena where he met with his Greek
counterpart Haris Theoharis to discuss means of boosting coastal and maritime
tourism cooperation.
The discussions
aimed to revive a 2017 tripartite agreement on cruise tourism between Egypt,
Greece, and Cyprus, said the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities in a
statement on Friday.
The meeting
tackled the Egyptian tourism programs on the religious tourism, to which Greek
tourists gravitate, the statement continued.
The Egyptian
Minister invited his Greek counterpart to attend “an Egyptian night” that will
be organized by the Egyptian ministry on the sidelines of the International
Tourism Bourse in Berlin (ITB Berlin) due in March.
Last year, in a
meeting held on the sidelines of the IT travel trade fair in Berlin, former
Minister of Tourism Rania Mashat and her Cypriot and Greek counterparts agreed
to form a joint working group to study the newly-reached agreement.
The study will
include maritime ports of the three countries to which the cruises will visit,
Mashat said.