Founder of Siwa hotel Adrère Amellal urges gov’t to reconsider travel warnings

Mounir Neamatalla, founder of the Adrère Amellal ecolodge hotel in Siwa Oasis, is hoping governments could reconsider their warnings against visiting Egypt’s Western Desert, writes the Financial Times' Heba Saleh. Neamatalla has recently invited a group of distinguished diplomats from France, Sweden, Belgium, Singapore and South Korea for a stay to prove it’s a safe destination. The UK and the US strongly advise their citizens not to visit the Western Desert, which is a short drive away from civil war-torn Libya.