Egypt
- Drop In Tourism
VOA News Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. A slump in tourism is aggravating Egypt's economic woes and affecting the lives of those who depend on the industry for a living. About 20 percent of Egypt's foreign currency earnings come from tourism....
- Travel: The Dubious Value Of Low Cost Nile Cruises
The Telegraph (Jane Archer) Interesting look at the impacts that low-cost tourism is having on Egypt and on the Egyptian experience: Many no doubt think it is only right that anyone and everyone can have the holidays that used to be reserved for a select...
- Nile File 1
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1309026,curpg-3.cms A short four-page travel item on the The Times of India website describing a visit to Giza, the ancient Egyptian focus on power and death and how this is now immortalized via tourism:...
- The Hyderabad Mummy
An Egyptian expert has recommended an air tight display case in an effort to preserve the deteriorating mummy in Hyderabad. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4904411.cms...
- Mummy Turning To Dust
A museum director in India appears to be negligent of his duty and a Ptolemaic priestess may vanish for his efforts http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/2278-yr-old_mummy_dying_a_slow_death/articleshow/3130065.cms...
Egypt
Nile File 3
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1326913.cms
Part 3 of a travel feature about the Nile, this time looking at the experience of tourism in Egypt: "I've finally figured out why otherwise fairly normal people become tourists: They are motivated by a secret desire to revert to childhood. For tourism is essentially a journey back in time. By travelling to a foreign land, with an unfamiliar language, customs, food, and sometimes even loo signs, the tourist in effect transforms himself into a child who must be led by the hand, literally and metaphorically, through this strange and potentially daunting terrain by a series of adults — guides, translators, taxi drivers, hotel staff etc — who cosset and guard him from the more egregious follies of his own inexperience".
See the above web page for more (there are four pages - click the Next link at the bottom of the page).
- Drop In Tourism
VOA News Thanks to Rhio Barnhart for this link. A slump in tourism is aggravating Egypt's economic woes and affecting the lives of those who depend on the industry for a living. About 20 percent of Egypt's foreign currency earnings come from tourism....
- Travel: The Dubious Value Of Low Cost Nile Cruises
The Telegraph (Jane Archer) Interesting look at the impacts that low-cost tourism is having on Egypt and on the Egyptian experience: Many no doubt think it is only right that anyone and everyone can have the holidays that used to be reserved for a select...
- Nile File 1
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-1309026,curpg-3.cms A short four-page travel item on the The Times of India website describing a visit to Giza, the ancient Egyptian focus on power and death and how this is now immortalized via tourism:...
- The Hyderabad Mummy
An Egyptian expert has recommended an air tight display case in an effort to preserve the deteriorating mummy in Hyderabad. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4904411.cms...
- Mummy Turning To Dust
A museum director in India appears to be negligent of his duty and a Ptolemaic priestess may vanish for his efforts http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/2278-yr-old_mummy_dying_a_slow_death/articleshow/3130065.cms...