Luxor International Airport
Luxor International Airport
Luxor is a distinctive icon of Egyptian tourism, and its airport is the canvas that welcomes tourists, indicating the importance of the airport’s visual identity, especially with the city attracting conference tourism and tourism of visual artists who draw inspiration from the city for their artistic works.
Luxor Airport receives approximately 3.5 million passengers annually, more than 90% of whom are tourists from various markets exporting tourism to Egypt, most notably from England, France, Japan, China, Spain, Latin American countries, and Southeast Asian countries.
The city currently attracts a segment of tourists who love ancient Egyptian civilization, and they belong to the visual artists, and they draw inspiration for their artistic works from the Pharaonic monuments and temples, and their paintings are considered ambassadors for Egyptian tourism.
From this standpoint, the committee calls on the government and the concerned authorities to develop a comprehensive plan to develop Luxor Airport and its visual identity, to be a true expression of the legacy of ancient Egyptian civilization, and for the airport to be like a museum in receiving visitors.
Luxor International Airport was opened in 1954 AD, east of Luxor city in the Arab Republic of Egypt; the airport is 6.482 kilometers away from the city, then it was developed in 1990 AD to increase its capacity by building a new passenger terminal, to be reopened again in 1994 AD.
This airport is symbolized internationally by the International Air Transport Association (IATA code) with the code (LXR), and it is symbolized by the code (HELX) according to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO code), and the airport area is 23,207,222,439 square meters, and it mainly serves the Luxor area; as it provides the possibility of traveling to 25 destinations in 10 different countries without stopping, and the airport provides its services to approximately 3.5 million passengers annually. Luxor International Airport have been fully prepared for serving the travelers where it is equipped with a special passenger terminal composed of 14 desks which can accommodate 2,400 travelers in an hour.
