About 123EgyptTours.com
123EgyptTours.com is your perfect one stop online resource for all the information you'll ever need for a trip to Egypt since 2004. 123EgyptTours.com / Memphis Tours is a recognized tourism company (classified as a category A company) since August 25, 1955 under license No: 30. As a tourism company, we at 123EgyptTours.com have a simple mission: to bring tourists to Egypt to experience the wonders of this beautiful country, and to make our clients happy.
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If you've been dreaming to go on a wonderful tour of Egypt and is planning to do so, 123EgyptTours.com can assist you so that you can be sure that you're vacation is everything you want it to be. We at 123EgyptTours.com work only with the best to bring you the best, and best of all you don't have to pay extra to get the best. Your personal satisfaction is our main concern. So, book a tour directly through us and utilize our great network.
Our Travel Policies
This section covers the overall aims of our policy and the ethos/mission statement of the company.
Economic Responsibility
1. Sightseeing tours are operated and led by local guides. Also, we employ local drivers and all arrangements of tours are made by local staff.
2. We encourage clients to buy handmade artifacts from the local producers like perfume, papyrus, carpets, and pharaonic gold or silver souvenirs.
3. Tours include a visit to local markets like Khan El Khalili Bazaar in Cairo, Souk in Luxor and Aswan.
4. We offer free travel insurance of US$10,000 to cover your trip to Egypt, courtesy of an Egyptian insurance company.
5. We ensure the growth of our local staff for their personal benefit as well as yours by giving them leadership courses, emotional intelligence courses and language courses in addition to tourism courses.
6. We use locally owned hotels and restaurants.
Environmental Responsibility
1. All places visited are left as we found them. No piece of paper and trash are to be left behind. Also, our local staff in Bahariya and the White Desert cooperate with the government on an annual clean-up drive of the areas used as a camp for tourists.
2. All our modern air-conditioned cars are provided with baskets for rubbish, in addition to environmental filters on the exhaust pipes to minimize.air pollution.
3. Local guides and tour operators are not allowed to smoke during work; furthermore, smoking is completely forbidden even inside our company.
4. Through our weekly meetings, we advise department managers to ensure that all operations have minimal impact on the environment, E.g. We do not to use car horns for our company cars and private cars during driving on the Egyptian streets to minimize noise pollution. Also, we always aim to be an example to others, like in our environmental aim “Please keep your town clean.”
5. We advise travellers not to damage coral reefs during diving or snorkelling in the Red Sea through our diving guides and tour guides who explain the importance of the reefs.
6. We support eco-tourism in Egypt and do our best to partner with eco-hotels and resorts in Egypt whenever possible, with establishments such as the Marsa Alam Ecology Safari villages and the Coral Coast Hotel in Dahab. We are also in the process of making an Eco-camp in Bahariya Oasis. At this eco-accommodation, you will stay in an environmentally friendly eco-village, built by local masons with local stone using traditional methods.
We give the choice of staying in tents or hotels with domed rooms for your accommodations in Marsa Alam or Dahab. The tents are provided with electricity and locally-made Egyptian-style furniture, with toilets and the shower nearby. Water conservation is important, and tissue paper is always available in the pin. The domed hotel rooms have thick walls to keep rooms cool. Our Dahab hotel bosta an all-local staff line-up, while our Marsa Alam hotels have a majority of staff coming from the local area. Both hotels use local furniture.
7. We listen to your advice concerning environmental issues and we always strive to improve our services.
Social Responsibility
1. Before our clients' arrival, our business partners' staff should provide accurate information concerning the social customs, traditions and suitable clothes for each destination.
2. Our partners' employees must be from the local communities, to help overcome the problem of unemployment in Egypt.
3. Our partners must train local students during summer holidays on the principles of tourism and on dealing with tourists.
4. Our partners must be capable of providing satisfactory tours for handicapped travellers and to make everything accessible for them.
5. 123EgyptTours.com is a member of the Misr Al Mahrusa Baladi Organization, a charitable non-governmental organization that aims to wipe out illiteracy by improving the quality of education in Egypt at governmental schools, especially at the primary level, by fostering and encouraging prodigies, and by bringing up and educating orphans. Our partners must pay donations to this organization to support its projects. The organization's website, www.mahrusa.com, should be up and running soon. We also encourage our clients to contribute to this charitable organization.
