Newly unearthed 3,400-year old red granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the pharaoh’s mortuary temple in the city of Luxor. Egypt’s Culture Ministry says a team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago. (AP Photo/ Supreme Council of Antiquities)

The Sheraton Cairo succeeded to win the HACCP, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points and the ISO 9001, which is a Quality Management System, as a significant recognition of the hotel’s compliance to the internationally recognized management principles and standards for quality and food safety in accordance with the related management system.

When it comes to hotel accommodation in Egypt, you’ve traditionally had two options. First, you could play it safe with the luxury international 4 and 5 star chains, which, while comfortable and pleasant, lack much of a connection to Egypt. Staff in these chains are trained to nearly robotic levels of automation, the lightness of their character trained right out of them. Second, you could venture onto the local market, and play a dangerous game of accommodation roulette. Your experience might be alright, but you are just as likely to share a room with cockroaches and receive indifferent to insufferable care.

John Harria

The Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm el-Sheikh intends to slash its carbon emissions in the next decade to woo a growing class of eco-tourists, a senior government official who heads the $238 million project says. Experts welcome the plan but believe the government should also be enforcing existing environmental rules in the Red Sea resort of 62,000 hotel rooms, where dust from frantic coastal construction has been blamed for damaging prize coral reefs.

EgyptAir is considering the reorganization of its Cairo International flight schedule into multiple banks from the present two starting with the 2010-11 winter schedule