On Tuesday, the Higher Committee of the Cairo International Book Fair, headed by Minister of Culture Enas Abdel Dayem expressed her great happiness at the public attendance on the sixth day of the 53rd session of the Cairo International Book Fair, which recorded 64,000 visitors.
She added that the number of visitors reflected their serious desire for knowledge, pointing out that the e- platform of the exhibition has received huge interaction as well.
Head of the General Egyptian Book Organization, Haitham al-Hajj Ali, announced that the digital platform of the book fair recorded about 44.5 million visits from various countries of the world.
Top visits in order were from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the US, the UAE, Kuwait, the UK, Germany, Qatar, Jordan, and Oman.
The number of registered visitors on the platform reached nearly 300,000, and the number of virtual tour visits to the exhibition reached 3,247, while the number of tickets booked on the e-platform was nearly 40,000. The number of book views on the platform for publishing houses participating in the exhibition recorded more than 26,500 views.
The number of pavilions in the exhibition is 879 pavilions.
The 53rd session of the Cairo International Book Fair is held under the auspices of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and was inaugurated by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, and will be held at the Egypt International Exhibition Center – EIEC in New Cairo, and will continue until February 7, 2022.
The exhibition is considered one of the largest actual gatherings of publishers in the world, where 1,063 Egyptian, Arab and foreign publishers representing 51 countries, take part. Greece is this year’s guest of honor country.
The 53rd book fair edition will see the launch of the digital project of books of the General Egyptian Book Authority.
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