BUSINESS TOURISM - Discover Intense Business Trips
Business tourism is growing around well-equipped convention centres with a good accommodation infrastructure offering excellent service. Cairo and the major cities often play host to numerous conventions, seminars and conferences, meetings, trade fairs and incentive trips. Egypt and its partners offer well-adapted facilities for convention visitors, participants in professional shows and also their entourages.
Cairo International Conference Centre -CICC-, is only 15 minutes from the international airport, 20 minutes from the city centre and Cairo’s best five-star hotels. There are three main auditoria, each equipped with projection room and simultaneous translation studios for eight languages. The main auditorium can take up to 2,500 people.
Major hotels
Many five-star hotels can host conferences and banquets for large groups:
• In Cairo: Semiramis Inter Continental, Cairo Conrad, Cairo Marriott, Oberoi Mena House, Meridien Heliopolis, Grand Hyatt, Nile Hilton,
Four Seasons Hotel Cairo… and also the Inter Continental Heliopolis Hotel…
• In Alexandria: Hilton Green Plaza, Hilton Borg El Arab Resort and Spa El Alamein…
• In Sharm El-Sheikh: Jolie Ville Movenpick Golf Resort, Marriott, Hilton Four Seasons, all major chains.
There are also major hotels in Luxor, Aswan, Hurghada…
Leisure activities
Whichever city you choose to host your business event, it is easy to organise interesting distractions for business travellers: diving trips in the Red Sea, rounds of golf, cruises on the Nile, tours of Cairo…
