The World Youth Forum (WYF) is boosting tourism flow to the Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh which is now hosting hundreds of young people, public figures, leaders, senior officials from all over the world, the forum’s spokesperson Sara Badr said. “It was a genius decision to hold the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh which is one of the country’s top tourist attractions,” Badr told Egyptian Streets in an interview. Badr added that the forum is giving a boost to Egypt’s tourism industry “in a creative way”. “It is reinvigorating tourism by gathering people from all across the world in this large event that seeks to create a platform for dialogue among people from different cultures,” said Badr, who is also part of the Presidential Leadership Program (PLP). The program was launched by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in 2015 in order to qualify young people for leadership posts. The international forum is attended by a total of 3200 participants, 1200 of whom are foreigners from 113 countries. The forum also has 222 speakers, 64 of whom are from foreign nationalities. Sharm el-Sheikh is one of Egypt’s best tourist destinations,…
World Youth Forum Boosting Tourism in Sharm el-Sheikh: Spokesperson
November 7, 2017
