Egypt
The Art of Counting (Amy Calvert)
- Tourism: Egypt's Tops Tourist Destination In Mideast, North Africa
Egypt State Information Service Egypt has become the top tourist destination among Middle East and North Africa countries and is the world's 24th most attractive tourist destination, according to a report by Minister of Tourism Zuhir Garana. The...
- One Million Tourists Visited Egypt Last April
Egyptian State Information Service Close to 1.31 million tourists from all over the world visited Egypt last April, up by 12% compared to the same month a year earlier," said chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics Abu-Bakr...
- Eternal Siwa
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7267"At 12,000 years and counting, the lush oasis of Siwa is ancient on a scale that makes the Pyramids seem like teenagers. To a first-time visitor, the town can seem from another world — a place where...
- Germany Key Tourist Exporter To Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/2xal8r (sis.gov.eg) "Germany is a key tourist exporting market to Egypt, said the Egyptian Minister of Tourism. Zuheir Garana said that about 1.1 million German tourists visited Egypt last year, expecting the figure to go up to two...
- Current State Of Tourism In Egypt
http://www.netindia123.com/showdetails.asp?id=88347&cat=Business&head=Tourists+visiting+Egypt+on+the+rise “Egypt’s Central Bank said Tuesday the number of tourists who visited Egypt in March increased by 26 percent compared to the same period...
Egypt
The Art of Counting
The Art of Counting (Amy Calvert)
If you haven't found the Art of Counting blog yet you are missing some good posts. Amy has targeted some important points and includes photographs to support her comments.
One of her series of posts is called Tacky Tourists and hits the nail on the head so well concerning the way some tourists behave in Egypt. See, for example, The Fondler, a single photograph which is an alarming shot of a tourist stroking one of the Hatshepsut temple frescoes. My own experience of tourists in Luxor and elsewhere has been equally staggering at times - my personal all time "is this really happening?" moment came when a German tourist in Siwa was found with a geology hammer in the act of digging fossils out of one of the columns of the Temple of Amun. One of the aspects of tourism that she highlights in her Tacky Tourist series is the habit of female western tourists of going around half dressed in an Islamic country, something that has bothered me in visits to Luxor for a very long time - there has to be a balance between enjoying the benefits of tourisms and showing respect for the country visited.
She is also working to make Factor Analysis and other statistical methods digestible to the archaeologist, and other interested people.
One of her series of posts is called Tacky Tourists and hits the nail on the head so well concerning the way some tourists behave in Egypt. See, for example, The Fondler, a single photograph which is an alarming shot of a tourist stroking one of the Hatshepsut temple frescoes. My own experience of tourists in Luxor and elsewhere has been equally staggering at times - my personal all time "is this really happening?" moment came when a German tourist in Siwa was found with a geology hammer in the act of digging fossils out of one of the columns of the Temple of Amun. One of the aspects of tourism that she highlights in her Tacky Tourist series is the habit of female western tourists of going around half dressed in an Islamic country, something that has bothered me in visits to Luxor for a very long time - there has to be a balance between enjoying the benefits of tourisms and showing respect for the country visited.
She is also working to make Factor Analysis and other statistical methods digestible to the archaeologist, and other interested people.
- Tourism: Egypt's Tops Tourist Destination In Mideast, North Africa
Egypt State Information Service Egypt has become the top tourist destination among Middle East and North Africa countries and is the world's 24th most attractive tourist destination, according to a report by Minister of Tourism Zuhir Garana. The...
- One Million Tourists Visited Egypt Last April
Egyptian State Information Service Close to 1.31 million tourists from all over the world visited Egypt last April, up by 12% compared to the same month a year earlier," said chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics Abu-Bakr...
- Eternal Siwa
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7267"At 12,000 years and counting, the lush oasis of Siwa is ancient on a scale that makes the Pyramids seem like teenagers. To a first-time visitor, the town can seem from another world — a place where...
- Germany Key Tourist Exporter To Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/2xal8r (sis.gov.eg) "Germany is a key tourist exporting market to Egypt, said the Egyptian Minister of Tourism. Zuheir Garana said that about 1.1 million German tourists visited Egypt last year, expecting the figure to go up to two...
- Current State Of Tourism In Egypt
http://www.netindia123.com/showdetails.asp?id=88347&cat=Business&head=Tourists+visiting+Egypt+on+the+rise “Egypt’s Central Bank said Tuesday the number of tourists who visited Egypt in March increased by 26 percent compared to the same period...