Mubarak has been able to show the development of Sharm el-Sheikh, where he has a home for the holidays, he invites foreign visitors to attend political meetings and conferences. Hidden in the mountains, the desert of Sinai and the Red Sea coast is gold. There are hotels and casinos, diving courses and golf courses that attract a quarter of the 12.5 million tourists in Egypt in 2009.
Sharm el-Sheikh, said it is rejected by the tourism of the Red Sea off the southern tip of Sinai, Gulf of Suez and Aqaba is also important to Egypt as a symbol of sovereignty regained in the Sinai. Captured by Israel in the 1967 war in the Sinai, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt returned under the 1979 peace agreement that was signed by him at that time, President Anwar el-Sadat and Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Israel.
Egypt began to develop in Sharm el-Sheikh, a resort and tourism through the construction of several hotels in the region in 1980. Since then the site has become an attractive tourist area of Western and Arab investors and thousands of tourists, most of the divers who are interested in the warm waters and herds of exotic fish.
In those years, the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, who became a dry town. Its inhabitants are a mix of tourists, hotel staff, construction workers, guides, taxi drivers, and sports of diving and water.
Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, called Las Vegas, were among the Bedouin settlements in the Sinai and the election of Mubarak's Middle East summit. In 2002, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations (UNESCO) to celebrate the Sharm el-Sheikh, as the "City of Peace."
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