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Zaazou... 'The security of visitors to Egypt remains our highest priority'

Egypt to spend $32m on upgraded security measures

CAIRO, March 17, 2016

In the wake of recent attacks on hotels in Egypt, the country will spend $32 million to upgrade security in two Red Sea resorts popular with foreign tourists, said a report quoting the tourism minister said.

According to the minister, Hisham Zaazou, the plan is to expand the use of security cameras, scanning and detection equipment and sniffer dogs in the towns of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada. He also said additionel secutiry personnel will be deployed, said a report in The Big Story.

"The security of visitors to Egypt remains our highest priority," Zaazou said in a statement.

The move follows wo attacks earlier this month that targeted hotels frequented by foreign tourists in Cairo and Hurghada. No one was hurt in the Cairo attack, but three tourists – two Austrians and a Swede – were injured in Hurghada.

Tourist numbers to Egypt have slumped drastically in the tumultuous five years that followed the 2011 revolution, and after the October crash of a Russian passenger jet flying over Sinai in November which the government suspects was likely bombed down.




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