Last weekend, Senzo Sporting Club was opened in Hurghada, on hopes that the 105,000 square meters will revive tourism along Egypt’s Red Sea. The sports complex, which is only minutes from Hurghada International Airport, aims to attract athletes, both amateur and professionals, locally and globally, to use the sports club facilities in tournaments and seasonal training camps. “I can promise you that this enterprise will be one of the Red Sea’s major attractions,” owner of Senzo Club Kamel Abu Ali told Egyptian Streets. Ibrahim Abu Ashra, Egyptian Swiss Company’s CEO, stressed that tourism is no longer limited to visiting ancient ruins. Instead, the new global trend is to link tourism with sports as majority of people prefer to spend holidays and leisure time to exercise or watch aspects of sports activity in developed countries. An investment of EGP 350 million was put into four swimming pools and three soccer fields, handball, squash, volleyball, and tennis courts, three multi-purpose racetracks, as well as a snack bar, a children’s area, and an amphitheater. Captian Abdelrahman Soliman, who supervised the workouts of about fifty players throughout the opening day, said that the club is one of the best…
