Tour Egypt has become the most widely viewed Egyptian Internet resource, receiving over 100,000 visitors and winning five Internet awards during its first two months on line. That is not all together surprising when one considers that a team of researchers and designers worked almost eight months on the initial site of 2,500 pages, and they have added another 1,000 pages of interesting content since going on-line at the end of December, 1996. While Tour Egypt is a travel site, we have placed content on-line covering many different topics and appealing to many different audiences. We have done so because we not only wish to assist the immediate Egyptian Tourist, but to promote new and fresh enthusiasm for travel to Egypt. We feel that one way to increase tourism to Egypt is by informing and educating the public.
Many people are really uninformed about the splendor of Egypt.
Surprisingly, there are those who think that Egypt is pyramids and sphinx, and nothing more. We wish to show these people just how dynamic Egypt really is, and how a visit can be exciting in a diversity of fun and entertaining ways. But we also wish to further cultural understanding, because we feel that to know the Egyptian people is to love them. We also hope to foster an understanding and respect for the modern religious beliefs and customs of the Egyptian people. We hope that our readers who visit Egypt will go there with enough knowledge and respect of Egypt's religious heritage to be welcome in the eyes of all.