Egypt to spend $32M upgrading security at tourist resorts

14 January 2016, 6:32 pm

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Egypt’s Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou says Cairo will spend $32 million on upgrading security in two Red Sea resorts popular with foreign tourists, following recent attacks on hotels and the suspected terror bombing of a Russian airliner.

Zaazou says the plan is to expand the use of security cameras, scanning and detection equipment and sniffer dogs in the towns of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada.

Additional security personnel will also be deployed there, he says.

“The security of visitors to Egypt remains our highest priority,” Zaazou says in a statement. “I believe that these new measures will further add to the security of our resorts while not being intrusive to tourists so they can get on with enjoying their holidays.”