Egypt
The National (Susan Hack)
- Updates On Tourism Slump
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) has decided to exempt bazaar, cafeteria and gift shop owners in museums and archaeological sites from paying rent for June and August. As part of the ministry’s move, any legal...
- Egyptian Tourism Revenue Sees Dramatic Growth
PR Web Egypt's Tourism Minister Zoheir Garrana has announced that the country’s tourism revenues from the first six months of 2010 have increased by 17.6 per cent compared to the same period last year. Garrana indicates a number of factors as contributing...
- Tourism In Egypt Suffers Crisis
FT.com (Heba Saleh) Tourist buses line the street in front of the Egyptian Museum (above) in downtown Cairo, and visitors cluster in groups around their guides as they prepare to enter the pink neoclassical building that houses the treasures of Tutankhamun...
- Tourism: Developing Tourism In The Middle East
Gulf News (Jumana Al Taminmi) With a 9.5 per cent average annual increase in tourist arrivals between 2000 and 2004, the Middle East region has already recorded the fastest growth of any region and comparable with worldwide travel and tourism (T&T)...
- Egypt Draws Record 9.7m Visitors
Travel and Tourism News Middle East With a record 9.7 million visitors in the year 2006-07, tourism numbers are well on target in Egypt. The numbers reflect a 13 per cent increase on the previous fiscal year, the state news agency MENA reported. Egypt’s...
Egypt
In Egypt, crowd-free travel is the new normal
The National (Susan Hack)
Two months after the start of largely peaceful demonstrations that drove former president Hosni Mubarak from power on February 11, foreign tourists are returning to Egypt in a trickle rather than a flood. Uncrowded beaches, the lack of queues at tombs and museums, plus discounts offered by hotels and Nile cruise ships make the next six months a unique time to travel to the cradle of civilisation, according to officials hoping that exhilaration over the country's youth revolution - and Egypt's compelling combination of sunshine and pharaonic antiquities - will eventually translate into a tourism rebound.
"Welcome back," reads the optimistic cover of this month's issue of Horus, the in-flight magazine of Egyptair, which was forced to cancel 75 per cent of its flights in February. As Egypt lost an estimated US$1 billion (Dh3.67bn) in tourism revenue amid an 80-per-cent drop in tourist arrivals compared with the February to April period last year, tour operators diverted clients to cultural destinations in Turkey and beaches in the Canary Islands. (Russia, yet to lift its Egypt travel warning, has sent many of its sun-seeking holidaymakers to Dubai).
- Updates On Tourism Slump
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref) The Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) has decided to exempt bazaar, cafeteria and gift shop owners in museums and archaeological sites from paying rent for June and August. As part of the ministry’s move, any legal...
- Egyptian Tourism Revenue Sees Dramatic Growth
PR Web Egypt's Tourism Minister Zoheir Garrana has announced that the country’s tourism revenues from the first six months of 2010 have increased by 17.6 per cent compared to the same period last year. Garrana indicates a number of factors as contributing...
- Tourism In Egypt Suffers Crisis
FT.com (Heba Saleh) Tourist buses line the street in front of the Egyptian Museum (above) in downtown Cairo, and visitors cluster in groups around their guides as they prepare to enter the pink neoclassical building that houses the treasures of Tutankhamun...
- Tourism: Developing Tourism In The Middle East
Gulf News (Jumana Al Taminmi) With a 9.5 per cent average annual increase in tourist arrivals between 2000 and 2004, the Middle East region has already recorded the fastest growth of any region and comparable with worldwide travel and tourism (T&T)...
- Egypt Draws Record 9.7m Visitors
Travel and Tourism News Middle East With a record 9.7 million visitors in the year 2006-07, tourism numbers are well on target in Egypt. The numbers reflect a 13 per cent increase on the previous fiscal year, the state news agency MENA reported. Egypt’s...