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For Travel Professionals · DMC Partners

Egypt DMC & Ground Partnership

What is a ground partnership?

For international DMCs, global agency networks and operators outside Egypt: Triways delivers your programme on the ground in Egypt. The itinerary, the client and the promise are yours; the operation is ours.

The other partner pages are for professionals who sell Egypt through us. This one is for peers who need a team in Egypt to carry what they have already sold.

  • Your programme
  • Your clients
  • Our ground team
  • Trade only
Discuss Your Brief View Capabilities
Years of operation
39
Licence No.
2048
Support
24/7
Places covered
14
Offices
5
Nile cruises
5
Two relationships

Booking Through a DMC, or Partnering With One

Both are common in Egypt. They answer different needs, and it helps to be clear which one you are asking for.

Two travel professionals at a terrace table go through a proposal on a laptop, temple columns beside them and feluccas on the Nile beyond

You sell our journeys.

Booking through a DMC

  • The DMC designs the journey from your client’s brief
  • You present its proposal to your client
  • For advisors, designers and operators selling Egypt
A guide with a tablet points out a temple to two travellers standing beside a black vehicle with its door open

We deliver your programme.

Partnering as a ground operator

  • Your itinerary and standards, delivered on the ground
  • Your clients contracted with you, and stay with you
  • For DMCs, agency networks and operators abroad
Where we operate

Geographic Coverage

Fourteen places across three regions. Tell us where your programme goes, and before you contract we will set out how each part is delivered and who answers for it.

Relief map of Egypt marking the fourteen places Triways covers, from Alexandria and Marsa Matrouh on the Mediterranean, down the Nile to Abu Simbel, and along the Red Sea from Taba to Marsa Alam
Schematic map — not to scale

Nile Valley 4 places

  • The Great Pyramid of Giza and the Sphinx

    Cairo

    The capital and the Pyramids of Giza, best approached in layers.

  • Colossal statues and papyrus columns at Luxor Temple

    Luxor

    Karnak, the East Bank temples and the West Bank tombs, in a planned sequence.

  • Feluccas on the Nile at Aswan beneath desert hills

    Aswan

    Where the Nile slows down: Philae, the High Dam and the Nubian villages.

  • The seated colossi of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel

    Abu Simbel

    The rock temples of Ramesses II above Lake Nasser, reached from Aswan.

Red Sea Coast 6 places

  • A Red Sea beach and jetty at Hurghada in evening light

    Hurghada

    The Red Sea’s most familiar stretch: reefs, the Giftun Islands and a marina.

  • A white boat anchored off a Sharm El Sheikh beach

    Sharm El Sheikh

    The southern tip of Sinai: Ras Mohammed, Naama Bay and reef diving.

  • Windsurfers on the shallow Red Sea water at Safaga

    Safaga

    A working port with windsurfing, black sand and a direct road to Luxor.

  • Coral and anthias fish on a reef off Marsa Alam

    Marsa Alam

    The quieter south: Elphinstone Reef, Abu Dabbab and Dolphin House.

  • Clear Gulf of Aqaba water below red Sinai mountains at Dahab

    Dahab

    Red mountains and clear water, the Blue Hole, and Mount Sinai within reach.

  • Salah El Din Castle on Pharaoh’s Island in the Gulf of Aqaba off Taba

    Taba

    Egypt’s northernmost Red Sea resort, facing Pharaoh’s Island.

Mediterranean & Desert 4 places

  • Qaitbay Citadel and Alexandria’s harbour on the Mediterranean

    Alexandria

    The Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Qaitbay Citadel and Greco-Roman history.

  • The mud-brick ruins of the Shali fortress at Siwa Oasis at dusk

    Siwa Oasis

    A remote Western Desert oasis beside the Great Sand Sea.

  • White sand and turquoise water on the coast near Marsa Matrouh

    Marsa Matrouh

    White sand and turquoise lagoons, including Cleopatra and Agiba beaches.

  • Wind-carved white chalk formations on the White Desert plain

    White Desert

    Wind-shaped chalk formations, best experienced overnight.

Every place is covered by the same team and the same point of contact. Across them, the vessels, vehicles and hotels behind a programme are set out in Capabilities, and each place in Destinations.

Your programme, carried

Sub-Contracted Delivery

You send the programme. We deliver it in Egypt as you wrote it, and tell you when the ground changes it.

  • Your itinerary, not ours

    We work from your day-by-day programme and your service standards. Where something on the ground argues for a change, a closure, a timing or a better hotel for the dates, we propose it to you first rather than changing it quietly.

  • Your client relationship

    Triways works with the travel trade only and does not sell to your clients. They contracted with you and they stay with you; our team meets them as the people delivering your programme.

  • How we present

    The names used on arrival signage, vouchers and documents, and how our guides and representatives introduce themselves, are agreed in the partnership contract, programme by programme if you need it.

  • What sits behind it

    Arrivals and departures, transport, hotels and Nile ships, guiding and on-ground coordination, under one contract. Egypt DMC describes the full service.

A coordinator in a dark suit speaks into a radio beside a line of black vehicles, the domes and minarets of Cairo behind him at sunset
On the ground in Cairo
Your promise, kept

Operational Standards & Reliability

A partner DMC is lending us its reputation. The standards below are the ones we are held to.

  • Standing

    A Licensed Company

    Triways operates under Licence No. 2048, with 39 years of operation, and works alongside its sister company, Planet Tours.

  • Road

    Licensed Drivers, Insured Vehicles

    Chauffeurs are licensed and vehicles are insured, matched to the size of each party. Private Transportation names the vehicle types.

  • Contact

    One Point of Contact, 24/7

    Your operations desk has one contact for the programme, and support is available around the clock while your travellers are in Egypt.

  • Reporting

    Changes Reported, With the New Plan

    A cancelled flight or a closed site is re-planned on the ground and reported to you with what has been done, so you can speak to your client before they call you. On-Ground Operations shows how.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between booking through a DMC and partnering with one as a ground operator?

When you book through a DMC, you sell its journeys to your clients. When you partner with one as a ground operator, it delivers your own programme in the country, on your itinerary and to your standards, and you remain the company your clients contracted with.

Can Triways operate under our brand rather than its own?

Triways works with the travel trade only and does not sell to your clients, so they travel on your programme. How our team presents to them, including the names used on signage and documents, is agreed in the partnership contract.

What geographic coverage across Egypt can Triways guarantee?

Fourteen places across three regions: Cairo, Luxor, Aswan and Abu Simbel in the Nile Valley; Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, Safaga, Marsa Alam, Dahab and Taba on the Red Sea coast; Alexandria, Siwa Oasis, Marsa Matrouh and the White Desert on the Mediterranean and in the desert. Before you contract, we confirm how each part of your programme is delivered.

How does Triways handle liability and quality control for sub-contracted programmes?

Triways operates under Licence No. 2048. Chauffeurs are licensed and vehicles are insured. Every programme has one point of contact and 24/7 support while travellers are in Egypt, and any change on the ground is reported to you with the new plan. Responsibility for each service is set out in the partnership contract.

Discuss Your Brief

Tell us what you need carried in Egypt.

Share the programme, the places and the season. We will come back with how we would deliver it, and on what terms.