Government announces further security measures in key tourist resorts
Egypt is introducing a series of new security measures at its holiday resorts, the Tourism Ministry said on Thursday, a week after suspected militants armed with knives wounded three European visitors to Hurghada. The measures include installing additional closed circuit television (CCTV) camera systems in the Red Sea resorts of Sharm al-Sheikh and Hurghada, the Ministry said in a statement. The government is also buying new scanning and detection equipment and increasing the number of security personnel and sniffer dogs for resorts. An additional EGP250 million (USD32 million) will be allocated for security. "These additional measures bring our tourist security to another level. However, we will not stop there. We constantly review our capabilities ... and will continue to do so," said Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou. (Reuters)
This website uses cookies to make the site work, to understand if the site is working well, how it is being used, to connect to social media sites (such as Facebook and Twitter) and to collect information useful to allow us and our partners to provide you with more relevant ads . Some cookies are essential to make the site work, but you can control how we use non-essential cookies at any time by clicking the “ON/OFF” button next to each category. For more information about the cookies used on this site, see Privacy Policy.
Decide which cookies you want to allow.
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around our website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of our website. Without these cookies, any services on our Site you wish to access cannot be provided.
Analytical/performance cookies
Visitors use our website, for instance which pages you go to most often, and if you get error messages from web pages.