Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has declared the opening of Hyatt Centric Cairo West, the country’s first art hotel in early 2024. Located in the Pyramids Heights platform, the art hotel incorporates art into its design and guest experience, including paintings, sculptures, hanging figures, and distinctive architectural features, as part of revamping the area surrounding the Grand Egyptian Museum.
The privately owned company AlDau Development signed a contract with Hyatt Hotels to develop the hotel, which covers an area of 27,000 square meters and has attracted investments worth EGP 1 billion. The signing ceremony was attended by Giza Governor Ahmed Rashed and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Issa, who spoke about the National Tourism Development Strategy.
Egypt aims to host 25-30 million tourists by 2028 and has been working on expanding the capacity of its hotels to 14-15 million tourists per year. The need to double the number of hotel rooms to 283 rooms provides affordable air travel and diversifies tourist products to attract the target number of tourists. Further, it has recently eased tourist visa requirements for several countries including China, Iran, India, Turkey, Morocco, and Algeria in an attempt to boost tourism.
The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the country’s tourism sector, with the number of visitors dropping from 13.1 million in 2019 to 3.7 million in 2020. However, the sector has been recovering over the last two years, with the number of tourists increasing to eight million in 2021 and 11.7 million in 2022.
