What We Offer

Advisory Services

Beyond our online site guides, Egypt Pass provides direct advisory services to travellers, academic groups, heritage organisations, and media productions that require specialist knowledge and facilitated access.

Service Areas

Eight Areas of Specialist Support

Each service is provided by qualified researchers with direct knowledge of the relevant sites, regulations, and institutions. We do not subcontract advisory work to generalist travel agents.

Individual Travellers

Digital Site Intelligence Packages

Downloadable PDF briefing packs for each major site, covering current ticketing arrangements, best arrival times, on-site navigation, photography permissions, prohibited items, nearby food and water points, and accessibility conditions. Each pack is produced from the most recent field visit data and marked with a confidence date. Packs are available for Giza, Karnak, Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, Saqqara, Abydos, Dendera, Edfu, Kom Ombo, Philae, Abu Simbel, and the Grand Egyptian Museum.

Packs are included with Explorer membership and above. Individual packs for non-members are available at EGP 450 each.

Academic Institutions

Field Study Group Preparation

Comprehensive pre-departure briefings for university departments, research institutes, and postgraduate programmes planning Egypt fieldwork. We prepare site-specific logistics reports, permit requirement assessments, academic calendar cross-references (site closures during Ramadan and national holidays), and logistical recommendations for groups of 8 to 60 participants.

Briefing packages start at EGP 3,200 for groups up to 20, with tiered pricing for larger cohorts. Multi-visit institutional subscriptions available. Contact us for current academic rates and institutional discounts.

Research Access

Access Permit Facilitation

Navigating the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities permit system is time-consuming and requires knowledge of the correct submission channels, supporting documentation, and institutional guarantor requirements. Our team has successfully facilitated permits for restricted zone access, photography permits for professional productions, and research permissions for non-Egyptian institutions across 34 separate monument zones since 2012.

Permit facilitation is a specialist service quoted individually based on the scope of access required and the lead time available. Standard processing times range from 10 to 30 working days. Expedited handling is sometimes possible depending on current ministry workload.

Media & Publishing

Editorial Research & Fact-Checking

Documentary productions, publishing houses, and online media outlets commission us to verify Egypt-related archaeological claims, source location details, and authenticate captions for historical images. We have provided fact-checking services for three major streaming documentaries, two Oxford University Press titles, and six international travel magazines between 2020 and 2026.

Media research engagements are quoted on scope and deadline. Standard turnaround for a single-site verification is five working days. Full programme fact-checking is negotiated individually. Rushes can be accommodated with appropriate notice.

Heritage Organisations

Heritage Impact Assessment Support

Conservation organisations, UNESCO advisory committees, and infrastructure planners sometimes require independent baseline assessments of visitor-impact conditions at specific Egyptian sites. We produce structured observer reports covering footfall patterns, environmental stress indicators visible to the field observer, on-site conservation signage effectiveness, and crowd management practices.

These reports are produced by our senior archaeologists and are citeable as independent professional observations. They do not substitute for formal engineering or environmental assessments but provide valuable contextual data for organisations conducting broader heritage impact studies.

Private Visitors

Bespoke Itinerary Consultation

For travellers planning extended or research-focused visits, we offer a one-hour video consultation with one of our senior researchers. In this session, your specific interests, travel dates, physical mobility requirements, and time constraints are mapped against our current site database to produce a realistic, prioritised itinerary with day-by-day logistical notes.

Consultations are available to Scholar and Expedition members as part of their membership benefit. Non-member consultations cost EGP 1,850 per session. Sessions are conducted via video call at a mutually agreed time, with a summary document delivered within 48 hours.

Schools & Colleges

Educational Group Briefings

Secondary schools and further education colleges bringing student groups to Egypt benefit from our pre-departure classroom briefing materials, which are curriculum-aligned for history, geography, and classical studies courses operating under the UK, IB, and American AP frameworks. Our site packs for student groups include age-appropriate historical narrative and structured observation activities for on-site use.

Educational group packages start at EGP 1,400 for a full destination pack covering up to 10 sites. An accompanying teacher guide with session plans and discussion questions is included. Volume pricing available for annual or repeat bookings.

Corporate & Incentive

Corporate Cultural Programmes

Organisations hosting executive retreats or incentive programmes in Egypt can request a cultural enrichment component — a series of curated expert-led sessions on Egyptian history, archaeology, and cultural context, delivered either as written briefing materials or as live video presentations to conference delegates.

These programmes are tailored to the duration of the event, the background of delegates, and the planned site visits. We have delivered cultural briefing programmes for corporate groups visiting Giza, Luxor, and the GEM from financial, pharmaceutical, and technology sector organisations between 2021 and 2026.

Returning Visitors

Update Subscription — Site Alerts

Researchers and frequent visitors who need to stay current on site access conditions can subscribe to our weekly site alert bulletin, which covers confirmed opening-hour changes, ticketing system updates, active conservation closures, and significant news from the Egyptian antiquities sector.

The alert bulletin is included with all membership tiers. Standalone subscriptions are available for non-members at EGP 650 per year, covering the full Egypt Pass alert feed with email delivery and archive access going back four years.

All Services Provided by Qualified Researchers

Egypt Pass does not outsource any of its advisory services. Every consultation, briefing document, and permit facilitation engagement is handled by a named researcher who is personally accountable for the accuracy of the information provided. We do not use automated content generation for any client-facing deliverable. If you are uncertain which service best matches your requirement, send us a message and we will advise without obligation.

Service Comparison

Membership vs. Standalone Services

Service Non-Member Explorer Scholar Expedition
Online site guide access Partial Full Full Full
Digital site intelligence packs (PDF) EGP 450 each All included All included All included
Weekly site alert bulletin EGP 650/year Included Included Included
Printed field reference booklet Not available Not included Included Included
One-hour itinerary consultation EGP 1,850 Not included 1 included 3 included
Permit facilitation Quote on request 20% discount 30% discount Priority + 40% off
Group field study briefing From EGP 3,200 Separate fee 25% discount Complimentary (1/yr)
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Engagement Process

What Happens After You Make an Enquiry

We do not operate a standard e-commerce purchase flow for advisory services. Every engagement begins with a conversation to ensure we understand your specific needs before agreeing on scope and fees.

When you submit an enquiry through our contact form, a senior researcher reviews your message within one business day. For most service enquiries, we reply with a brief assessment of what we can offer, any questions we need answered before preparing a proposal, and an indicative fee range where applicable. We never quote a final fee without first understanding the full scope of the work required.

For academic group briefings and permit facilitation requests, a short scoping call of twenty to thirty minutes is typically the most efficient next step. In this call we establish the exact sites involved, the nature of access required, the group composition, the travel dates, and any constraints on the permit pathway — for example, whether the institution has a standing relationship with the relevant zone directorate in Egypt or whether the application needs to be made entirely through us as facilitators. This level of detail determines the complexity of the work and therefore the fee.

For media and editorial research engagements, we typically request a brief — a document or email summarising the project, the specific factual claims or location details requiring verification, and the delivery deadline. Single-item fact checks on straightforward claims can sometimes be turned around within 48 hours. Full programme fact-checking for documentary productions is scheduled across a period agreed between both parties, with deliveries structured to match the production timeline.

Corporate cultural programme requests are assessed individually. If you are planning an executive event in Egypt and wish to include a cultural enrichment component, send us the event dates, location, number of delegates, and a brief description of the professional context of the group. We will propose a programme structure and delivery format suited to the setting and the audience's assumed familiarity with Egyptian history.

Quality Standards

Our Commitments to Every Client

These are the standards we hold ourselves to across every advisory engagement, regardless of size or budget.

Named Researcher Accountability

Every advisory deliverable is produced and signed off by a named member of our team. We never use anonymous contractors or automated tools for client-facing research output. If you have a question about any aspect of a document we have delivered, you can address it directly to the researcher who produced it. This accountability is a deliberate structural choice, not a courtesy — it means the person answering your follow-up question has direct knowledge of how the original research was conducted.

Transparent Fee Structure

We provide a written fee proposal before any chargeable work begins. There are no hidden charges added after delivery. If the scope of work expands during an engagement — for example, if a permit pathway turns out to require additional documentation steps not identified at the outset — we notify you immediately, explain the implications, and agree on how to proceed before incurring any additional time. We do not present expanded invoices without prior discussion.

Realistic Outcome Communication

When a permit is unlikely to be approved in your timeframe, or when a site you want to access is genuinely inaccessible to non-Egyptian researchers, we tell you that clearly and promptly rather than beginning a process that cannot succeed. Our permit facilitation track record is strong precisely because we screen applications before submitting and only proceed when there is a reasonable prospect of success. We would rather decline an engagement than deliver a negative result after charging fees for the attempt.

Data Confidentiality

Research briefs, institutional enquiries, and client itineraries are treated as confidential. We do not reference client organisations or project details in any public-facing material without written permission. Media clients in particular can request a standard non-disclosure agreement before sharing project details — we have NDA templates available in English and Arabic and will execute one within 48 hours of request. Academic institutions whose data requirements are commercially sensitive are given the same confidentiality assurance.

Post-Delivery Support

Deliverables do not mark the end of an engagement. If you receive a site briefing pack or itinerary document and subsequently discover that a specific detail needs clarification, we respond to follow-up questions at no additional charge within the original scope of work. For Expedition members, this ongoing access to the named researcher extends throughout the membership year, not just the immediate post-delivery period. We view the deliverable as the beginning of a useful working relationship, not its conclusion.

Local Network Access

Our Cairo offices and our field researchers' long-term presence across Egyptian heritage sites mean we have working relationships with zone directors, ticketing supervisors, and site managers at most of the forty-seven locations in our database. These relationships allow us to obtain real-time access information, flag upcoming closures before they appear on official channels, and navigate permit queries through the correct channel on the first approach rather than going through a trial-and-error process with Egyptian bureaucracy at your expense.

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