About El Gouna Times
Welcome to our premier issue of El Gouna Times!
Willkommen - Welkom - Bienvenu - Bienvenida - Benvenuto - Marhaban!
El Gouna Times is a free, independent and interactive online news service from and for tourists and residents in El Gouna at the Red Sea, Egypt.
El Gouna is one of many realisations of the Orascom Group and has become the number one holiday destination in Egypt, and is further expanding into a thriving community where you can spend excellent holidays, or live and work, or retire yourself, in a healthy, safe and sunny climate.
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El Gouna Times will bring editorials that keep you up to date with the local events and happenings, interviews with residents and tourists and hot news about the people you know already in El Gouna. It will help you in finding your way at one of the most attractive holiday resorts in Africa.
Editorials in El Gouna Times will be in English, but we are able to cope with German, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish languages too. For those languages we have incorporated a special section in the menu at the right under About El Gouna Times, where you can post reactions in your own language.
Besides our regular Editorial, El Gouna Times offers also in the menu at the right:
- A Postings Calendar where our readers have the possibility to read previous issues of our magazine and articles that were published as posting. Search in postings via the Search box.
- A Content Index, with lot of bundled theme pages around El Gouna and hints how to cope with the Egyptian mentality. Everybody (so, registered or unregistered visitors) can add here interactive input, which will be handled by our staff before publishing.
- Our Columns/Postings section will give an overview of published postings, and will lead you via the Classified ads to interesting new contacts, either private or for business, as well as job opportunities in El Gouna, and offers a platform for renting an appartment or villa, and even for acquisition or selling your property in El Gouna. Classified Ads can be send in any language and will be listed per language seprated as well combined in the ALL section of Classified Ads.
- By using the Archive in the menu at the right you can easily stroll through series of postings published in earlier months of the El Gouna Times.
- A Forum where registered forum members have the possibility to exchange live ideas and experiences about life in El Gouna, uncensored and unmoderated. In the Forum we have special languages sections for English, German, Dutch and French, and if wanted, also for Italian and Spanish speaking visitors. The interface for the Forum can be set to English, German, Dutch, French; Spanish, Italian or Arabic!
- In our section Photo Series you’ll find a vaste choice of albums with thousands of pictures: sightseeing impressions as well as our VIP’s of the day.
- And you can even upload your own El Gouna pictures, all which can be used by anyone for sending free E-cards to family and friends all over the world. But: you’ll find here also hundreds of pictures of real estate objects, and even detailed pictures made during construction or renovation progress of certain El Gouna projects.
- If you run yourself an El Gouna related website, you can join our banner exchange program.
- Last but not least, you’ll find an exclusive choice of external links to free historical and entertainment sites for your moments of leisure.
- And of course, you too can buy advertising space in our El Gouna Times.
Because El Gouna Times is an interactive medium, readers are able to react immediately at most items, by clicking on the Write a Comment link under each article.
Have Fun!
Hubert Savelberg
Responsible Editor
Address valid after September 1st, 2005
El Gouna Times.com
Att. Hubert Savelberg,Responsible Editor
West Golf Appt. Y12-0-16/17,
El Gouna (Hurghada), Red Sea,
Egypt.
Mobile Egypt: 010-84 456 83
Phone: Local Extension 708-5266
SKYPE User ID: “el-gouna-times”
E-Mail: info@elgounatimes.com
Address valid after September 1st, 2005
Please visit us ONLY if we have arranged an appointment with you by E-Mail. Our staff will move only to El Gouna starting September 1st, 2005. After that date, we are most of the time at duty anywhere around El Gouna for interviews and photo shootings. Thank you for your comprehension!
About Hubert Savelberg
Hubert brings 22 years of computer experience with him and has been online since 1986. He founded Euregio.Net in 1995 as the first ISP in the German-speaking part of Belgium and established the company as the market-leader in this region. He sits on the board of various industry commissions, such as the DNS.BE quality board. Hubert is a founding member of the Belgian ISPA (Internet Service Provider Association). He is a frequent guest speaker on e-commerce, web development, online marketing and general Internet issues.
Before getting into the Internet industry, he was already a successful salesman and entrepreneur. He created the largest Macintosh computer club in Europe where he published books, CD-ROMs and a monthly electronic (hypertext) magazine. He also organized annual computer conferences drawing more than 10,000 attendees.
In his free time, Hubert enjoys walking the dog and working on his Goggomobil old timer car. He’s also one of the original weather photographers for the Flemish TV. In Elgouna, Hubert lives at West Golf Appartments.
You can contact Hubert in English, German, French or Dutch at info@elgounatimes.com
El Gouna Times is in neither way related to the Orascom Group nor to www.elgouna.com. El Gouna Times is published under the ©2005 license of H.Savelberg. Permission granted by Orascom Group for using the El Gouna Logo.