The Organization of Islamic Cooperation officially announced a short while ago that the city of Cairo won as the tourism capital of the Organization’s member states for the year 2026, during the 12th session of the Conference of Tourism Ministers of the Organization’s member states, which is currently being held in Uzbekistan, with the participation of a delegation from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities headed by Professor Ghada Shalaby, Deputy Minister of Tourism. And antiquities for tourism affairs.
For his part, Mr. Ahmed Issa, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, appreciated the victory of the city of Cairo as the capital of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for the year 2026, especially in light of its diverse tourism potentials, in addition to what the ministry is doing to develop Cairo’s new cultural product, Cairo City Break, which will make the city of Cairo An independent tourist destination that contributes to increasing the number of tourist nights there. He thanked the General Administration of Strategic Management at the Ministry and the work team for their efforts to prepare the nomination file for the city of Cairo within the nominations for the (Tourism City) Awards of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for the years 2025/2026, considering that the city of Cairo is among the The most prominent Egyptian heritage cities that meet the criteria contained in the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s book to win this award, and the coordination made by the Ministry’s General Department of International Relations and Agreements in this regard.Engineer Adel El Gendy, Director General of the Ministry’s General Administration of Strategic Management, explained that the preparation of this file was based on the efforts undertaken by the Ministry to develop the new Cairo cultural product Cairo City Break, which reflects the Ministry’s efforts to develop many historical, spiritual and heritage sites, as well as reformulating and using heritage areas after… Rehabilitating it and developing the comprehensive urban environment, which aims to enrich the visitor’s experience, in addition to an inventory of tourist services and facilities, which includes the numbers of hotel establishments, their degrees of stardom, entertainment services, and the numbers of tourist nationalities that visit Cairo, with the aim of showing the extent of Cairo’s importance as a tourist destination that extends beyond its regional metropolitan range to the global one. Cosmopolitan.
The nomination file for the city of Cairo includes several aspects, namely the historical and archaeological path of Cairo, which includes historical and archaeological monuments throughout the ages, including the archaeological sites of Giza, Saqqara, Abu Sir, Dahshur, Mit Rahina, and others, and the spiritual path of Cairo, which includes Islamic heritage sites, including the area of the Religious Complex and mosques. Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah, Al-Azhar, Ahmed Ibn Tulun, and the Mamluk tombs, in addition to the Holy Family’s itinerary in Cairo, which includes the Virgin Mary Tree in Matareya, the Church of the Virgin Mary in Maadi, and the Abu Sarga Church in Old Egypt.
It also includes the cultural path, which includes the Islamic cultural heritage in Al-Mu’izz Lidin Allah Al-Fatimi Street, Al-Gamaleya, Al-Azhar, and Al-Ghuriya, in addition to the creative centers in historic Cairo, museums and palaces, including the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Coptic Museum, and the Citadel of Saladin, in addition to the humanitarian path, which includes Event sites related to religious and national holidays and events.
In addition to the recreational path, which includes tourist and entertainment attractions such as Al-Azhar Park, Fustat Hills Gardens, the People of Egypt Walk, Ain Al-Hayat Lake, and other recreational attractions, in addition to the life path, which includes aspects of life, shopping places, popular food, and traditional arts, in addition to the Nile Path, which includes the walk. Indigo and its entertainment venues, floating restaurants, dahabiyat and flakes.
The file also included the modern landmarks of the New Administrative Capital and all the aspects it contains that qualify it as the best city tourism destinations in the world.
The city of Cairo wins as the tourism capital of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation for the year 2026
