Tourism is recovering in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor with the opening of the Sphinxes Avenue just around the corner. Also known as “El Kebbash Road”, the project’s launch is scheduled to take place in a few days.
Tourists have flocked to the archeological sites and temples in the district, and hotels have seen a remarkable increase in reservations.
“Hotels occupancy rate in the district jumped 20 percent in November,” said Mohamed Osman, head of the Cultural Tourism Promotion Committee in Luxor in a press statement on Wednesday, noting that “more tourists are expected to visit the country after the opening the Sphinxes Avenue.”
“The region is witnessing a high tourist turnout in the current period. Over 5,000 visitors are visiting Al Karnak Temple every day, a number that hadn’t been seen in the site since 2013,” Saleh al-Masekh, director of Al Karnak Temple told Asharq Al-Awsat.
Al-Masekh attributed this growth to the huge advertising campaign of Sphinxes…