Orascom Development Holding AG: achieves turnover of CHF 169.9 million and operational profit (adjusted EBITDA) of CHF 13.9 million. For full results please click   HERE

Orascom Hotels has recently aggregated all their properties on one website.  Explore the story of the hotel management company behind El Gouna.  To visit the new website and know more about El Gouna ' s   sister destinations across the globe   CLICK HERE

The weekly Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna meeting Tuesday  night was held at the Culture Center Red Sea which is next to the Deutsche Schule Hurghada. The cosy atmosphere was the perfect place to summarise and assess all the hard work of the past few days organising the first convoy supplying aid to those in need in Ras Ghareb after the devastating flooding. The most urgent need is now for medical supplies. Here is the post shared last night by Club Founder Dina Nashed: For anyone who would like to support our sisters and brothers at Ras Ghareb,  RC Red Sea-El Gouna ( as part of our preparations for our Medical Aid Convoy), was updated by Ras Ghareb Hospital Manager with the urgent need for the following Medicine: Cidophage SR 1000 Insulin Mixtard 30/70 Cefobid 1000gm  Concor 5&10 Tablets Plavex Tablets Norvast 5&10 Capoten 25 Insulin Lantos If you can help to send these medicines urgently to Ras Ghareb please do so. The Rotar...

Announcing the First MX and ATV Track in Egypt, which  aims to host the National Competitions, will open its doors November 3rd, with a big event starting at 2pm.  Thereafter, the track will be open daily  10am to 11pm.  Activities at the Track: Providing Honda and Yamaha Dirt Bikes Motocross bikes, Dune Cars or Quad Runners including the usage of Track, 10 Laps (16KM)  Desert Trips by Dirt Bike, Dune Car or Quad, 3 hours  Honda ATV's  Driving Academy, 6 Classes  The track also provides full gear (Protection Tools) and free soft drinks. Only for El Gouna Owners: 15% Discount Free trial lap for the first 20 participants,  Free Membership Cards for the first 5 participants  at the opening ceremony  Location Track: F-IN-10 El GOUNA MOTOCROSS FESTIVAL - November 3rd.  Inviting all Egyptian Champions, future Champions and all who are interested in Motocross ...

Serving their delicious traditional-style Egyptian Pizza; The famous 'Fatir', originally, a sweet dish, is now very popular with all sorts of savory meats, seafood, and vegetarian options! 3nd Sokrat's organic and savory ingredients are freshly prepared every day, and you can find them all at the heart of El Gouna, in the beautiful Abu Tig Marina. Sip on a cold drink and delight yourselves with their tasty menu, while enjoying your time in a lovely, relaxed, and friendly atmosphere, not to mention,  getting to watch their professional Fatir Chef cooking up a storm right in front of your eyes! Open every day  from  12:00pm-11:00pm And they Deliver! click here for Facebook page Or call 0127 922 6082

Dear Friends of Rotary Rotary Club El Gouna has the pleasure to present their October 2016 Newsletter. You can view the newsletter online  HERE Moreover, you are welcome to join our weekly meetings at El Gouna Library every Tuesday at 7.30 pm. Warm regards Georgina Cole   Sergeant at Arms   Rotary Club Red Sea – El Gouna

Orascom Hotels and Development is proud to announce the launch of its  newest neighborhood: TAWILA Islands , El Gouna.  Ideally located 3 minutes drive from Abu Tig Marina. Tawila is comprised of 5 residential islands connected to one another by 6 bridges. The glittering star of TAWILA will be its 18 acres seawater lake. Available are townhouses and standalone villas. Fully finished with Air Condioning units.  Town Houses middle unit : 280,000 $ Town Houses Corner units : 330,000 $ Villa 130 m2 : 370,000 $ Villa 155 m2 : 480,000 $ Villa 200 m2 : 600,000 $ Payment terms :  15% down payment,  75% over five years, 10% on delivery in two years.  For info, please contact Therese Fahmy El Gouna Real Estate +20 65 358 0067 in Egypt, or +971 56 688 1531 in the UAE, or submit your query  HERE

Announcing the opening of Habiba Horse Stable in El Gouna. Habiba Horse is owned by the German national Kerstin Engels, who ensures a new state of the art stable, with international flair and great understanding of horse-keeping and customer-service. Enjoy a beach- and/or desert-trip or learn to ride in the paddock - Habiba Horse hosts horses for beginners as well as experienced riders. You wish to enjoy horse-riding in El Gouna on your own horse? Habiba Horse is also offering box-rentals including horse-care. Kerstin and her team are happy to serve you.  Just get in contact with Habiba Horse and express your wishes. Price-specials for El Gouna residents are available. Phone: German/English:          (+20) 0106 439 37 09              Arabic/English:             (+20) 0100 426 13 73 e-mail: ...

The Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna have the pleasure to share their August 2016 Newsletter. With greatest thanks to El Gouna residents Christiana and Hosain Taghian who so kindly and generously helped Rotary District 2451 Egypt with a mega project in Fayoum.  You can read about this project, in the newsletter, online here Rotary Club El Gouna also hope you will attend their exciting 'Traditional Crafts of Egypt' event that will be held at the Dawar El Omda Hotel Downtown on Wednesday 14th September 2016, from 5 pm, during the Eid Al Adha Feast. More details in the newsletter. If you are interested to learn more about Rotary and how to become a Rotarian, you are warmly invited to attend our meetings that are held every Tuesday at El Gouna Library at 7.30 pm. We would love to see you there. Sunny regards from the Red Sea Rotarians!

Dearest Gounies,

A new diving center has arrived to El Gouna by way of Hurghada. Starting its operations here only last month. Cinderella-El  Gouna  is located in the charming Sheraton Miramar hotel in El  Gouna,  offering  many different programs for families, children and friends. They provide full day snorkeling excursions or short trips of two hours, also diving excursions for a full day to discover or re-discover the wonders of the Red Sea. Cinderella also offer diving education with their professional diving instructors working in different languages : English, Russian, German and Arabic.   CIND ERELLA  DIVING CENTER   SHERATON MIRAMAR RESORT EL GOUNA  Facebook : cinderella El Gouna +2  011 21782222    +2  010 25736122 Enjoy the best of the Red Sea wi th Cinderella  professional diving team !

                                                 youthinkgreen is an international youth movement, based in Berlin, which aims at educating and empowering youth to apply local eco-friendly projects to local and global sustainability challenges.  ​ youthinkgreen - Egypt has been organizing the Sustainability Summer Camp for youth​, three years in a row now. This year, they organized their Third Sustainability Camp at TU Berlin Campus El-Gouna, with the topic of water sustainability, from the 5th to the 26th of August 2016.  During the sustainability camp, 40 carefully selected, talented Egyptian participants, from different universities, gathered with noted experts and coaches in the field of Sustainbility and Entrepreneurship to innovate entrepreneurial solutions to Egypt's most pressing challenge: Water.  On...

El Gouna Hospital Orthopedic Department, in association with Egyphar,  has the pleasure  to invite you to  a  Free Bone–Density test Monday 22 nd  of August, 2016 9.00 AM till 1.00 PM يعتبر هشاشة العظام من احد الامراض المنتشرة التى تصيب النساء و الرجال و لان ليس له اعراض تسبق حدوثة لذلك اطلق عليه  "  اللص الصامت  " لذلك تتشرف مستشفي الجونة بالمشاركة مع شركة ايجى فار  بتوفير  جهاز قياس كثافة العظام للرغبين في الفحص المبكر بمستشفي الجونة يوم الاثنين ا لموافق 22/08/2016  من الساعة 9 صباحا حتى الساعة 1 ظهرا   و سيتم اجراء اختبار قياس هشاشة العظام     مجانا  للراغبين و الحصول علي النتائج في نفس الوقت  For more information and reservation please contact us: Inside El Gouna ex.: (32222, 32201, 32202, 32073). Direct tele. No.: 065  3580012-17 E- mail:   info@elgounahospital.com.eg

Orascom has successfully launched an Online Payment and Management System for Homeowners. The new system allows Homeowners to view consumption of Services and Electricity and to pay their bills online using debit cards. The system, named iGouna Online, was rolled out this July, and is now available to all homeowners.  The system is based on an existing back end database used by Orascom for the last five years, called iGouna V5. The new front end, iGouna Online, is the interface homeowners use to view data on their invoices and meter readings and can be accessed using  http://egouna.com/index.html Facts about iGouna Online: 1- It took one month to build, given that it uses iGouna v5 as back office database (which took 5 years to build) 2-   Built by iGouna team 3-   137 clients are now using it since it went live 20 Jun 2016. 4-  F unctions include invoice payment, client statement, and water and electric consumption recording 5-   No extra cost e...

Due to popular demand the Oriental Street Festival that occurs every  Thursday  Tamr Henna Square, Downtown, will be supplemented with another stage @the  Kafr Square. Both stages will run simultaneously  8pm until 10pm . Come and discover everything that is great about Egyptian culture  and get wowed by the amazing acts and talented performers on stage. Please note that the Friday Street Festival previously held at the Marina, now moves instead to the Kafr Tamr Henna every Friday 8pm

The local Egyptian press is reporting a plan to build the first public sector solar panel energy producing park in Egypt at a budgeted cost of 91.6 Million USD. The suggested site to be in the Red Sea Governorate, at the site of the current wind farm, north of Hurghada, on the road to El Gouna. The plan was discussed by Mr. Ahmed Abdallah, Governor of the Red Sea, in a meeting with concerned parties, last Monday, at the Red Sea Governorate's offices. Discussions centered around an estimated initial production capacity of 20 Megawatts. The Solar Energy Farm would be built on a total surface of half a million square meters from an overall available area of 2.5 million square meters, at the current wind farm site. The discussions also covered the role played by the Hurghada based Information Technology Center for Renewable Energy to achieve optimum use of land available. The Solar Energy producing station would be built under the agreement reached by President Abdul Fatah El S...

The Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna, held their handover ceremony on Tuesday 19th July to mark the start of the new Rotary Year. Club President 2015-16 Sherif Abdel Aziz welcomed new President 2016-17 Dr Rafeek Ramzy who spoke about the plans for the year ahead for the Red Sea Club. A video was produced to review the projects organised in 2015-16, and also to highlight one of the new year activities which includes celebrating the centennial of The Rotary Foundation (TRF). The video is viewable in the video section of Gouna News.  TRF is responsible for organizing all the district and global grants for Rotary projects, and to celebrate their 100th anniversary they are asking all Rotary Clubs around the world to use the following hashtag on social media to highlight all the work and activities achieved:  #100ActsofGood 

EL GOUNA HOSPITAL IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE Professor Dr. Engy Salah Abu Taleb Assistant lecturer Orthodontics (Braces), El Ahram Canadian University Will visit our hospital From Wednesday 15 th   till Friday 17 th  of March 2017 Examinations will be held in outpatient clinic times from 6.00 PM to 9.00PM For more information please call: Tel: 065 358 0011 EXT (inside Gouna): 32222, 32201, 32202 Facebook Visit our web site: www.elgounahospital.com.eg E- mail:  info@elgounahospital.com.eg

The Rotary Club of Red Sea - El Gouna invited 45 orphans from El Nakib Primary and Taha Hussein School in Hurghada to enjoy Iftar at sunset during the last few days of Ramadan 2016. The excited children traveled together by bus to McDonald's restaurant at Senzo Mall south of the city. The McDonald's clown Ronald was there to greet the children together with Rotary Club members. Happy Meals were served as the children enjoyed the outside seating and play area.

Starting 30 october 2016, Jetairfly (TUI) will resume flights from Brussels to Sharm El Sheikh, and on 27 October to Marsa Alam, for the 2016-2017 winter season. The airline will also change their brandname to Tuifly in October. For more information and bookings https://www.jetairfly.com/nl Source: Jetairfly Jetairfly (TUI) hervat vluchten naar Sharm el-Sheikh en Marsa Alam Vanaf 30 oktober 2016 zal Jetairfly (TUI) zijn vluchten van Brussel naar Sharm El Sheikh hervatten en vanaf 27 Oktober ook naar Marsa Alam voor het winterseizoen 2016-2017. De luchtvaartmaatschappij veranderd zijn merknaam in Tuifly per Oktober Voor meer informatie en boekingen https://www.jetairfly.com/nl Bron: Jetairfly