Consistent with Egypt’s push for digital transformation within the tourism sector, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched self-service ticketing machines on the Saqqara archaeological website on Thursday, 12, June, in accordance to an announcement by the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.
The initiative, a part of a broader technique to improve the standard of providers at heritage websites and museums, goals to make the ticketing course of extra environment friendly and cut back crowding at conventional ticket home windows. Guests, each Egyptian and overseas, can now use financial institution playing cards to buy entry tickets instantly from the brand new machines.
In accordance to Mohamed Ismail Khaled, Secretary-Normal of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, the transfer is a part of the ministry’s built-in e-ticketing system, which additionally permits guests to ebook tickets on-line at egymonuments.com or by way of automated counters on-site.
The ministry plans to steadily increase the set up of those machines to different websites throughout the nation as a part of a scheduled rollout.
Assistant Minister for Digital Companies Mohamed Shaaban confirmed that the machines settle for solely digital funds and are a part of a wider system that additionally contains the Expertise Egypt cellular app and a centralized ticket gross sales middle for tour firms.
So far, the digital ticketing system has been activated at 110 museums and archaeological websites nationwide, together with main landmarks such because the Giza Pyramids Plateau, the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir, the Citadel of Saladin, Karnak Temple, and Abu Simbel Temple.
