Tourism in Hurghada / Egypt

Egyptian city of Hurghada on the Red Sea coast and the capital of Red Sea Governorate. Thecommercial port and tourist destination for its beaches and maritime activities

Hurghada has gained its name from the tree Algrdq, as is usually the place-name (and especially the desert) the names of plants or trees are spread throughout the feature.

Originated Hurghada in the early twentieth century as a gateway for the valleys of desert, inhabited by Bedouin Egyptians working in the fishing and nomadic Arab Arashndi and Juhayna from the Arabian Peninsula and Alababdeh on the coast of the Red Sea and began to grow the discovery of oil in that region in 1913 but that the mutation occurred in the early eighties eighties of the century when began to identify as a magnet for scuba diving enthusiasts, the accelerated growth in the next two decades to become one of the most important tourist cities in Egypt.

 The city of Hurghada is divided into three main neighborhoods: neighborhood scaffold (port) south of the province, which included most of the working population to fish; inspired Dahar and that he includes building maintenance and other government agencies and the commercial market; neighborhood neighborhoods north is an isolated area inhabited by people who had been working mostly at the National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, which was created in 1930 or the youth center next to the Institute.

Population: The population doubled due to investments from 20 thousand to 90 thousand and that means more than four times the current population and tend to the local indigenous population Migelb most of the residents of Red Sea from the tone of blend between the tone of nomadic zone and the Egyptian dialect known, customs and traditions, blended between the Egyptian and Bedouin, and most of the population capital of Red Sea Hurghada are Aljhaana (Juhani) and Arashndah (Arashnda), some original, including the residents of Center Hurghada old neighborhood Dahar some of them coming from some neighboring provinces and more than that about 40 thousand other workers and are not officially registered as children of the city of Hurghada and who work in a way directly and indirectly in the tourism industry.

Biology Home: District Dahar: is the center of the old city, and here we see the Egyptian life mixed with traditional Egyptian Bedouin character radically different from the others. And are also popular markets, shops, fish market, all this invites you to take time for shopping, touring, especially evening time where you will notice the presence of the Egyptians more than foreigners. The ramifications of this neighborhood some neighborhoods, such as drilling sub-district inspired the Arabs.

 
District scaffold: The tourist part of the city, which has spread to navigate around the places where the old port. The place renewed Vacation Obh many hotels, shops, shopping malls, clubs and restaurants that remain open to the public and tourists to after midnight

District neighborhoods: extends from the northern city of Hurghada, specifically the area south of El Gouna and the length of 22 kilometers on the coast and to the District Dahar. One of the main advantages of this district, the number of population by much less than in the rest of the parts of the city of Hurghada, on the other side of the coast Fbtoul We have many hotels that have been completed and other construction that has not been completed. And enjoy the atmosphere in this attractive eastern district is not possible now but maybe in the near future.

.Hurghada has evolved in the past years developed rapidly due to its transformation to a major tourist city on the coast of the Red Sea. The province was experiencing in the years prior to the spread of tourism from the weakness of key services, where the city was suffering constantly from a lack of fresh water which was being transported from the provinces of the south in tankers of water, as the city was suffering from blackouts outlet, as well as the suffering certain areas of isolation full and particular area of ​​aquaculture and given the focus of all services in the neighborhood of Dahar and the lack of public transport linking the area in the city, was the population and children rely primarily on vehicles transporting the sand to go to school or markets in the city.

And is considered by many residents of Hurghada that period that preceded the emergence of tourism, which was the population live under difficult conditions as much better than the current period, where the transformation of the city of Hurghada to the city to attract tourism to the high prices of services and higher housing prices and the proliferation of speculative prices of land and apartments and the spread of favoritism in the distribution of land and the spread of crime because of the steady increase in population and the spread of moral corruption which he links to many of the conditions of work in the field of tourism.

 The spread of tourism to the province to sell all land located on the shore of the sea directly and depriving the population of the city to enjoy the beaches, the city and acquired by hotels, villages, private and imposed fees are too high to allow access to the beach or prevented the city's population have access to it at all. The number of public beaches in the city is very small and not commensurate with the length of the coast of the city and with the population.

The city of Hurghada one of the most points of tourism beaches and resorts in Egypt and the Middle East, has gained Hurghada this reputation big in a few years, due mainly to two things: One is the discovery of the tourist value and aesthetic of Hurghada, which is unprecedented and the second thing is the availability of tourist facilities and sports very quickly the levels in this great region.

Practiced in Hurghada activities and water sports of skiing and sailing and diving. Waters warm embrace types of rare fish and coral reefs. Hurghada has hosted many of the diving competitions since 1950 and is today most famous cities in the diving world, came flying from Europe and from Cairo and Luxor fall day at the airport in Hurghada, Hurghada is the largest city in the Red Sea. Training internationally accredited diving has taken some of the organizers of responsibility for some dive sites Cabo copper, Bluff Point is one of the most famous places in Hurghada

Tourist attractions
· Mount smoke Roman ruins, 65 km north
· Aquarium at a distance of 4 km from the northern port of Hurghada
· Coral reefs
· National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries