Housing Minster Mostafa Madbouly held a meeting with Pascal Goven, chief executive officer of InterContinental Hotels and Resorts in India, Middle East and Africa (IHG) on Monday, agreeing to sign a cooperation protocol which will allow InterContinental, Holiday Inn and Stay Bridge Suites Cairo-Citystars to manage 100 tourist rooms in New Alamein city.

During the meeting, Goven also signed a memorandum of understanding with Tarek Shokry, chairman of Arab Real Estate Investment Company (ALICO), to operate three hotels in the Sun City project, which is implemented in partnership between the New Urban Communities Authority and ALICO.  

Madbouly welcomed the participation of IHG and agreed to prepare a cooperation protocol for 1000 rooms in the new city to be signed soon.

Acccording to Madbouly, the New Alamein City will be a complete city of a unique location on the Mediterranean coast with a façade of more than 14 km, equivalent to the length of Alexandria’s Corniche.

It is expected to comprise about 25,000 hotel rooms, a 320,000-meter-square tourist walkway, 16500-meter-square recreation area, schools, universities, and various services and activities.

He added that a cooperation protocol was signed with the École hôtelière de Lausanne [Lausanne Hotel School], a Swiss specialized college in the field of hospitality and hotels, to set up a center in the city to teach hospitality and produce a generation of outstanding cadres in the field of hotel management and operation in Egypt and the region.