“Come to Egypt”..Trend promotes tourism in Egypt

Egypt has a large number of unparalleled tourist and historical attractions and thrives on archaeological wonders that make it home to history and civilization.

Tourists travel long distances to explore the pyramids and the Sphinx to look at the remnants of the diverse ancient Egyptian civilization between Islamic, Coptic, Roman, Greek and Pharaonic civilizations.

One of the trends that topped the search engines on Google during this period is Come to Egypt, and it is one of the useful trends that promote cultures, as a video of one of the Lebanese chefs, Abeer Al-Saghir, 23 years old, spread during the past days, and this video carries the hashtag (# cometoegypt) to attract the attention of her followers Who have exceeded 20 million followers of the effects of ancient Egypt.

“Habibi come to Egypt” Abeer begins the 25-second video.

In the video, Abeer reviewed a group of the most prominent Egyptian landmarks, such as the Giza pyramids, the Egyptian Museum, and Khan al-Khalili, as well as some Egyptian food and drinks, such as foul from Arabic food, falafel, and mint tea.

  She added to the video a touch of accessories that are distinguished by Al-Moez Street, which is the copper jade made of gold pounds.

Millions of views

After the video exceeded more than a million and a half views, many celebrities, bloggers, and content makers from all over the world made videos for them from their various visits to Egypt, under the same hashtag, and the clips were not limited to the places that appeared in the original video, but rather the scenes varied in Various places in Egypt in the governorates of Luxor and Aswan, Dahab and Alexandria, Siwa Oasis and Sharm el-Sheikh in front of the Companions Mosque, and under the depths of the sea in the Red Sea.

A free promotional tool for Egypt

  With this video presented by Chef Abeer Al-Saghir, in which she reviewed a group of distinctive clips from her visit to Egypt, it became a free promotional tool for Egypt, to see its history, monuments, tourist, cultural and entertainment attractions for Egypt, which some considered to be a strong means of attraction, compared to the advertising campaigns that some tried implementation, with large budgets.

In light of these global campaigns that promote tourism in Egypt, the Minister of Tourism and Antiquities called for the need to pay attention to the individual tourist.

He said: "It is necessary to provide means of transportation for tourists, starting from leaving the airport, provided that the tourist has a safe, clean and problem-free experience."

Punishment for harassing tourists

According to its latest amendments, the Antiquities Protection Law established penalties for harassing tourists by imposing fines of up to 10,000 pounds.

According to Article 53, a person shall be punished with a fine of no less than 3,000 pounds and not more than 10,000 pounds for anyone who harassed tourists and visitors while they were in archaeological sites or museums, against their will, with the intention of begging, promoting, offering, or selling a good or service for his own benefit or for the benefit of others.