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A new resort will be built in Egypt
Egypt authorities plan to build a new large resort south of Hurghada. As the prime minister of the country, Ahmed Nazif, said on the eve of RIA Novosti, during a visit to the Sakhl Al-Khashish district, chosen for construction, the future resort will stretch six kilometers along the untouched Red Sea coast and will take 600 square kilometers. There will be built 14 hotels of different classes with more than 8.6 thousand rooms, a tourist village and 500 villas. It is also planned to build a harbor and a golf club here. The future resort will provide constant work of 22 thousand Egyptians, another 19 thousand will be able to work seasonally. In 2005, Egypt received 8.5 million foreign tourists, including almost 1 million tourists from Russia and Ukraine. In the Hurghada, which is the largest Egyptian resort city, the seven-thousandth Russian-speaking diaspora is now constantly living. Cairo and Moscow reached a fundamental agreement on the opening of the Russian consulate and the cultural center in the Hurghada.
Source: gzt.ru