Egypt will rent celebrities
March 4, 2011 by TTRweekly Staff
Filed under Africa, News
CAIRO, 4 March 2011 – Egypt’s newly-appointed minister of tourism, Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour announced, Thursday, Egypt wouldl not cut rates to save tourism but will rent a celebrity to show the destination is safe.
He said he was sending out invitations to world famous actors and media figures to organise shows and entertainment at Cairo’s Tahrir Square. They include Oprah Winfrey, the celebrated American media host who was recently hired by Australia to host her final TV show in that country.
Not so little Bethlehem after all
BETHLEHEM, 8 February 2011 – The Palestinians on Monday made a formal bid to have the no-longer-so-little town of Bethlehem, birthplace of Jesus Christ, added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites.
“We are very proud to announce that we have submitted the nomination file of Bethlehem: birthplace of Jesus — Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route … to the World Heritage Centre,” tourism minister Khulud Daibes told reporters.
The addition of the West Bank town to the UNESCO list should have been almost automatic and accomplished a long time ago, but like most issues in the Holy Land, it has become entangled in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
