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Li Zhaoxing, chef de la diplomatie chinoise et son homologue béninois Mme Boni Aladji ont signé au Bénin, trois accords de prêt, d’aide financière et de remise partielle de la dette béninoise.
Mohamed Salah Attia Gazette staff More than 9 million tourists visited Egypt in 2006, up 5.5 per cent in comparison to 2005, a senior official said yesterday. Revenues from tourism were up by 11.8 per cent, totalling $7.6 billion, Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah told a press conference.
The ministry is making plans to boost tourist arrivals to Egypt to 14 million by 2011, Garranah added. Tourists from UK were the highest in 2006, with 1,033,006, followed by Russia (998,148), Germany (966.386) and Italy (786,130), the minister said.
At the Arab level, Libyans topped tourist arrivals (443,197), followed by Saudi Arabia with 288,380, he added. European tourist arrivals to Egypt in 2006 were up by 38 per cent to 6,886,810 compared to 2005, while Arab tourists rose 12.9 per cent to 1,921,000 and US tourists were up by 15 per cent to 290,000, he told reporters.
The minister said 16,000 hotel rooms were built in 2006 and another 129,000 others are under construction. Garranah said the establishment of a hotel at the Cairo International Conference Centre was ahead of schedule thanks to Chinese loan of $70 million for that purpose.
Source : The Egyptian Gazette , Thursday, January 18, 2007