Following the election of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi in June, the Egyptian government has appointed a new tourism minister, Mohamed Hisham Abbas Zaazou who had served as the first assistant to Egypt’s minister of tourism since 2008, has worked in both the private and public tourism sectors for the past three decades, including the board of the Egyptian Tourism Federation, the Egyptian Tourist Authority, the Tourism Development Authority and the Arab Tourism Organization.Source: Travel Weekly; find article here>>.