The luxury hotels, water sports, shopping and entertainment. This is Sharm El Sheikh, one of the most accessible and developed tourist resort communities on the Sinai peninsula. All around are Bedouins, colorful tents, mountains and sea. There are small hotels with modern designs, as well as larger hotel complexes belonging to International chains, plus about all the amenities one could expect of a tourist center, including casinos, discos and nightclubs, golf courses and health facilities. In fact, with diving and snorkeling, windsurfing and other water sports, horses and camel riding, desert safaris, and great nearby antiquities attractions.
In an unparalleled success compared to any other city in Egypt and maybe the whole region, Sharm El Sheikh was awarded by the United Nations Educational, Science, and Cultural Organization, the UNESCO, as the finest city in the world for peace and beauty.
Sharm El Sheikh was granted with this international recognition because of the role the city played in establishing the principals of justice and comprehensive peace in the area of the Middle East.
Sharm El Sheikh has hosted many international peace conferences with the participation of many parties with the presence of the former Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, who made Sharm El Sheikh his favorite resort where he spent the last days of his ruling period, beside many of the well known world leaders.