After a ten years hiatus, Alexandria port witnessed on October 19 the arrival of the first Cypriot cruise ship to Alexandria coming from Limassol Cypriot port with 520 tourists of different nationalities, including 100 individuals coming as an official delegation headed by Vedon Fedonos, Mayor of Paphos Cyprus.
The tour group was received by Dr. Abdel Aziz Qanswa, Governor of Alexandria, Captain Tarek Shahin, Chairman of Alexandria Port Authority, Ahmed Gamal El Din, Deputy Governor of Alexandria, Major General Gamal Rashad, Head of Central Administration for Tourism and Resorts, and Mohamed Saad, Chairman of the Tourism Promotion Authority.
The tour group toured Alexandria including Montazah Gardens, the Greek Kafafis Museum, the Library of Alexandria and the Alexandria Opera House.
The governor of Alexandria, Abdel Aziz Qanswa, announced a direct flight from Paphos, Cyprus to Alexandria in six months.
The governor of Alexandria, during a press conference held in the port of Alexandria, that this comes within the framework of the brotherhood agreement between Alexandria and the city of Paphos, Cyprus, pointing out that he is coordinating with the mayor of Paphos to visit this ship twice a week in Alexandria, which works to stimulate tourism, pointing to Alexandria will be connected to Paphos with a low cost airline after 6 months, and we are working to make Alexandria and Cairo part of the tourism program of Cyprus, which makes us integrated tourist and makes it easier for the Egyptian tourist to travel to Cyprus at low cost, and makes Alexandria is the city that can G Lalla her access to the rest of Africa.