Egypt
Luxor Times
- Phaoronic Civilization Meets Art
Al Masry Al Youm (Heba Helmy and Nehal Mostafa) A symposium was held yesterday at the Egyptian Museum by prominent author Youssef Maati and Engi Fayed, office manager for cultural development of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The symposium, which...
- Travel: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
MNSBC Americans may consider Egypt a once-in-a-lifetime destination, but for Russian, Mediterranean and Arab tourists, it’s just another cheap and easy package tour stop—with the crowds to prove it. Fortunately, luxury tour operators and reputable...
- Egypt Kidnappings Not Stopping Tourists
Times Online The adventure-tour operator Explore will decide in the next few days whether to go ahead with trips to the remote western desert of Egypt, where 11 tourists were kidnapped on September 19. The company’s next tour, which is due to depart...
- Weekly Websites
New York Times (Michael Slackman) Thanks to Kat for this piece, which combines an account of travel in the desert with the story of how the guide who lead that particular tour came to be a desert tour guide, and what that kind of life is like. If you...
- Maintaing Standards Of Guiding In Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6887Thanks to Kat Newkirk, who spotted this interesting piece that I missed on the Egypt Today website. It looks at the problem of falling standards due to unlicensed tour guides, the issues with tourists...
Egypt
Threat by tour guides to go on strike
Luxor Times
According to Egyptian Newspapaer Al Ahram, Mostafa Waziry, Qurna Antiquities manager, had attacked a tour guide and slapped him 7 times after he made one of the guards hold the tour guide down and there was a religious reasons behind it as the tour guide comes from the same town of Mostafa Waziry,Naga Hamadai – north of Qena. It was also mentioned that the Luxor tour guides syndicate threatened that all tour guides in Luxor will start a strike if Mostafa wasn’t held down and slapped 7 times as he did to the tour guide.
- Phaoronic Civilization Meets Art
Al Masry Al Youm (Heba Helmy and Nehal Mostafa) A symposium was held yesterday at the Egyptian Museum by prominent author Youssef Maati and Engi Fayed, office manager for cultural development of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. The symposium, which...
- Travel: Egypt's Hidden Treasures
MNSBC Americans may consider Egypt a once-in-a-lifetime destination, but for Russian, Mediterranean and Arab tourists, it’s just another cheap and easy package tour stop—with the crowds to prove it. Fortunately, luxury tour operators and reputable...
- Egypt Kidnappings Not Stopping Tourists
Times Online The adventure-tour operator Explore will decide in the next few days whether to go ahead with trips to the remote western desert of Egypt, where 11 tourists were kidnapped on September 19. The company’s next tour, which is due to depart...
- Weekly Websites
New York Times (Michael Slackman) Thanks to Kat for this piece, which combines an account of travel in the desert with the story of how the guide who lead that particular tour came to be a desert tour guide, and what that kind of life is like. If you...
- Maintaing Standards Of Guiding In Egypt
http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6887Thanks to Kat Newkirk, who spotted this interesting piece that I missed on the Egypt Today website. It looks at the problem of falling standards due to unlicensed tour guides, the issues with tourists...