Egypt
Onward with Egypt tourism
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=7640_0_1_0_M
"Ranked as the world’s 28th largest, Egypt’s tourism continues to gain popularity. As major growth engine of the national economy, the trade currently employs over 10 percent of the total labor force providing 2.2 million direct and indirect jobs. Through 2006, it is expected to grow further with an increasing capacity to generate more employment."
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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...
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An Ambitious Plan To Attract 25 Million Tourists By 2022
Egypt State Information Service “The number of tourists visiting Egypt is expected to reach 14 million by 2011,” said the Tourism Minister Zohair Garana on Monday18/2/2008 at a meeting of the Shura Council's committee on tourism and culture....
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Egyptian Tourism
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=9572_0_1_0_M"Egyptian tourism is expected to grow further this year despite current situations in the Middle East. 'Arrivals as of July 2006 already reached 5.14 million. By the end of August 2006, we anticipate...
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Egypt Tourism Expects 10% Growth
http://tinyurl.com/hma9x (tradearabia.com) "The industry is growing at such a rate that is seems set to break the 2005 record of 85 million tourist nights spent throughout the country's 170,000 hotel rooms. A number of factors are contributing to...
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Impact Of Bombings On Tourism
http://tinyurl.com/h4czn (Reuters)"Tourist bookings to Egypt have dropped since last month's attack that killed 18 people at a Sinai resort but the tourism minister said on Monday he hoped to attract an extra one million visitors in 2006. Tourism...
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