The Minister of Tourism and Antiquities continues his official meetings in Italy and meets with the Commissioner of the Japanese Tourism Agency
Sherif Fathi, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, met with Haraikawa Naoya, Commissioner of the Tourism Agency of Japan, during his participation in the first meeting of tourism ministers of the Group of Seven Industrialized Countries in Florence, Italy (G7 ITALIA 2024), to discuss ways of joint cooperation in the field of tourism between the two countries.
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At the beginning of the meeting, Sherif Fathi emphasized the strong and distinguished relations between the two countries, which witness close cooperation in many fields until these relations developed and were raised to the level of strategic partnership to achieve Progress in all fields, especially tourism and antiquities.
During the meeting, Sherif Fathi discussed enhancing ways of tourism and archaeological cooperation between the two countries, explaining that this partnership is considered a model of international cooperation, stressing The successes achieved in the field of tourism and antiquities attest to the strength of this partnership, expressing his aspiration to continue this fruitful cooperation and increase it to broader horizons.
The Minister referred to the most prominent projects. The Egyptian-Japanese partnership, in the field of tourism and antiquities, including the Grand Egyptian Museum project, the extraction, restoration, and reassembly of the second Khufu ship, in addition to restoration and archaeological documentation work at many archaeological sites across the Republic, in addition to excavation work, as a number of Japanese archaeological missions work in many… Archaeological sites nationwide. The Japanese market is also one of the targeted tourist markets to attract more incoming tourist traffic.
The meeting discussed ways to enhance joint cooperation to develop tourism exchange between the two countries, and discussed the possibility of increasing the number of Flights between the two countries contribute to achieving this goal, in addition to emphasizing the importance of enhancing cultural exchange between the two countries, which contributes to introducing the Egyptian and Japanese people to each other’s culture through holding Egyptian archaeological exhibitions in the State of Japan, where the temporary archaeological exhibition “Ramses” was mentioned. And the Pharaohs went It is scheduled to be held in its next stop during the year 2025 in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, for the Japanese people to see the Egyptian antiquities, enjoy and learn more about them, especially in light of the Japanese people’s passion for the ancient Egyptian civilization.
