Million German tourists to visit Hurghada next year

About one million German tourists are expected to visit Hurghada and other coastal areas next year, said the German Ambassador in Cairo Martin Koebler yesterday on the occasion of inauguration of a new German consulate in Hurghada which has become the Germans' first touristic destination.

The ambassador thanked Governor Saad Abu Rida who announced that figures showed that the Germans who visited the Red Sea governorate scored 770.000 in 2004.