Yehia Rashed promotes Holy Family Route at ITB Berlin, meets with Bundestag’s budget committee chairman

Tourism Minister Yehia Rashed discussed Egypt’s efforts to revive tourism, including a project to track the route Jesus, Mary, and Joseph took during their journey from Palestine to Egypt, at the ITB travel trade show in Berlin, according to an emailed statement. The minister said that promoting eco-tourism in Egypt is also at the top of the ministry’s list of priorities during the coming period. Rashed also met with the chairman of the Bundestag’s budget committee yesterday, during which the two discussed the possibility of Germany providing funding for an Egyptian museum, Al Mal reports.