LUXOR TOURISM DEVT.

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The proposed project would (i) improve infrastructure in Luxor, renovate a hotel and construct a hotel training school and a visitor center; (ii) provide essential renovations of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo; and (iii) expand the guesthouse at Abu Simbel with some improvements to infrastructure. Technical assistance would be provided to prepare a plan for the development of the Egyptian Museum; to help strengthen the antiquities sector planning unit and formulate a five-year development program; to establish a new municipal water and sanitation department in Luxor and recommend methods of cost recovery; to improve visitor management on Luxor's west bank; to analyze hotel investment costs and the impact of price controls on hotels; and to recommend methods of cost recovery of investments in civil aviation.