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E
gypt’s Red Sea resorts continue will operate on Thursdays and Sundays, gateway resort of Hurghada, the purpose-
to expand to meet burgeoning with prices from £199 return. For summer built Madinat Makadi resort has been
demand from holidaymakers. 2010, Avro will have five flights per week augmented by the opening of the Iberotel
Much of that demand is coming to Sharm from Gatwick and two per week Makadi Palms, offering 102 self-catering
from the UK, which provided almost one from Manchester. studios and apartments overlooking the
million visitors to Egypt (988,525 to be resort’s nine-hole golf course. An 18-hole
precise) between January and September. Resorts and hotels course opened in 2008, along with the
This represented an impressive year-on-year Despite the global recession, there has neighbouring five-star Jaz Makadi Golf
increase of 8.8%, with the bulk of visitors been no slowing in the pace of resort Hotel. Jaz has also just opened the Iberotel
heading to the Red Sea. developments across the region. Aquamarine Resort at Hurghada.
Egyptian hotel group Jaz Hotels, Resorts & Early 2010 will see the opening of the
Flights Cruises is undergoing its largest expansion Jaz Royal Taba, an all-inclusive five-star
Extra seat capacity is helping to maintain programme in Egypt, with much of it in the hotel situated on its own beach seven miles
the region’s position as one of the top winter Red Sea. By early 2010 it will have added from the border with Israel. Turn to 50
sun destinations. British Airways launched six new hotels in Sharm el Sheikh alone,
a three-times-a-week flight between Gatwick increasing its portfolio in the resort by more
and Sharm el Sheikh at the end of October. than 1,000 rooms.
It joined other scheduled services to Last month saw the opening of the four-
Sharm from airports across the UK by star Sol Y Mar Sharks Bay. Other properties
easyJet,
Jet2.com, Flyglobespan and being unveiled in Sharm include the apart-
Thomson Airways. ment-style Sol Y Mar Naama Bay, catering to
Hurghada and Marsa Alam also have divers and families, and the five-star Iberotel
scheduled services from several UK airports, Il Mercato in the heart of the resort’s Il
while charters operate to all three as well as Mercato Promenade. There is also a new
to Taba. five-star beachfront resort hotel complex in
Avro has added two more charters from the Nabq area comprising three hotels under
Gatwick to Sharm for 12 weeks from the Sol Y Mar Riva World brand.
February to April 2010. These extra charters On the Red Sea’s western coast, near the Growth destination: Egypt’s Marsa Alam
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