Metro's Alice Murphy travelled to Hurghada on Egypt's Red Sea Riviera and found a beautiful resort with a threat hanging over it.
Hurghada is blessed with natural beauty, but rapid development threatens what makes it so special ‘Do you come from here?’ I asked. ‘No,’ he replied, ‘I come from my mother’s stomach.’ Still on the steps of the small provincial airport, I got my first taste of Egypt ian humour from Anwar, a taxi driver with an uproarious laugh and a wicked grin. It will not be the last time I hear this joke in Egypt . I was in Hurghada, the coastal capital of the ‘Red Sea Riviera’.
7 million foreign visitors in 2024, a record-breaking figure that surpassed the pre-pandemic peak of 14.7 million in 2010. Last year, Tui added Egypt’s Nile region to its programme of tours for winter 2025, a sign that demand is only set to rise. And it’s clear that developers in Hurghada are racing to accommodate it. Business hubs that proclaim to be ‘your new working oasis’ are under construction on the coastal road, sprawling breeze block structures that rise cheek by jowl from desert sand.
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