Luxor City Development Project

Egypt State Information Service

Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif held Thursday 14/2/2008 a meeting to review the implementation of the Comprehensive Development Plan for the City of Luxor.

During the meeting, Nazif followed up the renovation process of the Corniche road connecting Karnak and Luxor temples, said Cabinet spokesman Magdi Radi.

The plan which was approved two years ago involves the preservation and protection of the unique antiquity settings, cultural resources and the heritage of the Luxor City as one of the world's greatest open air museums.

The irrigation, investment and tourism ministers and the chairman of Luxor Supreme Council attended the meeting.

Farag discussed an idea presented by a US consultancy to establish an entertainment tourist project, involving a movie theater to display films about Luxor's history.

The meeting also took up three key projects to operate ferry boats between the Eastern and Western banks of the Nile and marinas in the southern part of Luxor city, the spokesman said.
The plan also involves the excavation and restoration of the avenue of ram-headed Sphinxes in Karnak.