Reader subscriptions sustain the editorial work that keeps the registry open and useful for travellers and the travel trade.
€20/year
For the individual traveller planning an Egypt visit or the curious follower of tourism policy.
€72/year
For travel agents, tour operators and editorial travel writers using the registry in their work.
€195/year
For tourism-policy research centres, embassy travel offices and travel-guide publishers.
Once a subscription is placed through the contact form, Mona Said confirms within two working days with the subscription identifier, the bank-transfer instructions (account at Banque du Caire, Beni Suef branch) or PayPal option, and the welcome email. The subscription becomes active when payment clears. The monthly bulletin arrives on the first Monday of every month.
A specific-pass certificate confirms in writing the registry's current information for a single pass category on a specific date — useful for travel agents with bookings to confirm, journalists with deadlines and museum-board members citing the registry. The fee is one hundred euros per certificate (eighty euros for Travel-trade subscribers, sixty for Institutional). Completed within five working days.
Annual breakdown: approximately fifty-six percent to editor salaries; sixteen percent to site-verification travel; eleven percent to the reader-observer honorarium pool; nine percent to office costs; five percent to technology infrastructure; three percent to the annual external audit and small consultancy work.
Since 2020 the cooperative has declined five sponsorship approaches — three from pass-reselling platforms, two from commercial tour operators. We treat the refusal record as the practical demonstration of our editorial-independence stance.
No. The quarterly tables, the corrections log and the methodology document are all free. Subscriptions pay for the monthly bulletin, the machine-readable export, the consultations and the certificate discount.
Annual transfer keeps administrative work tractable.
Yes — Reader tier at €10 for students with current identifier. Mark "student" on the form.
The registry is a digital publication from Egypt. We do not charge EU VAT and are not registered for collection. Egyptian VAT included in the displayed price.
Reader €20 since 2023 (€16 before). Travel-trade €72 since 2020. Institutional €195 since 2021.
Yes — Egyptian residents pay half the listed euro amount in Egyptian pounds, funded from the broader subscription pool. Mark country as Egypt on the form.
Yes. Mark "Gift subscription" on the contact form with the recipient's name, postal or email address, and the date the welcome should go out. We hold the gift until the requested date and send the welcome with your name attached unless you ask us not to. The recipient's subscription year then runs from the welcome date; the recipient does not need to do anything to activate.
Mona refunds the un-elapsed months pro rata to the nearest whole month, by reverse transfer or PayPal at your preference, within ten working days. Access to the bulletin and the early-quarterly window ends on the cancellation date.
Since the cooperative's launch in 2019. The current three-tier structure has been in place since 2021; the introductory two-tier structure (Reader and Trade only) ran from 2019 to 2020. The Institutional tier was added in early 2021 and has been the cooperative's fastest-growing tier in recent years.
The reader-observer honorarium pool consumes approximately eleven percent of annual revenue. The pool pays EGP 200 per accepted observer report; an active observer typically files three to five reports per year and earns approximately EGP 600 to EGP 1 000 annually. The honorarium is a recognition of the time and structured-observation effort the observer commits; it is not intended as a paid contractor relationship. The total honorarium pool grew from EGP 18 000 in 2021 to approximately EGP 52 000 in 2025 as the observer network expanded.
The Travel-trade tier adds the quarterly CSV/JSON export (machine-readable pass data for embedding in your own systems), one free pass-certificate per year, twenty percent off the consultation fee, the direct email line to the editor for the relevant region, and the annual financial transparency note. For a working travel agent or tour operator, the CSV export alone is typically worth the tier difference because it allows the agent's booking software to keep its pass-information current automatically.
Egyptian residents pay subscription tiers in Egyptian pounds at half the listed euro amount. The arrangement was introduced in 2020 to keep the registry accessible to Egyptian travel agents and tour operators where the local currency pressure on subscription budgets is real. The half-price is funded from the broader subscription pool; international subscribers effectively subsidise Egyptian-resident access. Approximately fifty-five percent of subscribers are at the Egyptian-resident rate.
Since 2020 the cooperative has declined five sponsorship approaches — three from pass-reselling platforms and two from commercial tour operators. We treat the refusal record as the practical demonstration of our editorial-independence stance. Two additional funding proposals declined came from travel-industry associations whose interests in promoting Egyptian tourism would have conflicted with our documentary stance; each refusal is logged in the corresponding year's December transparency note with the date and the approaching party named.
For the curious subscriber, the cooperative publishes an annual breakdown. Approximately fifty-six percent goes to editor salaries (the four editors and the administrator); sixteen percent to site-verification travel (the editors visit twelve to fifteen participating sites per quarter); eleven percent to the reader-observer honorarium pool (EGP 200 per accepted report); nine percent to office costs; five percent to technology infrastructure; three percent to the annual external audit and small consultancy work. The breakdown is published in detail in the December transparency note each year.