Egypt
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo)
- 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...
- Egypt Tourism Remains In Disarray
Al Masry Al Youm From the Pyramids of Giza to the Red Sea resorts, tourist numbers have plummeted to just a trickle, dealing a devastating blow to the millions of Egyptians whose livelihoods depend on the 14 million or so visitors who once thronged to...
- The State Of Tourism Following The Crisis
Forex Yard (Shaimaa Fayed and Peter Millership) Young Egyptians have launched an "Egypt is Safe" campaign, students are cleaning up national monuments and drivers now take visitors around Cairo's Tahrir Square as an attraction, anything to get the...
- Egyptian Tour Guides
Egypt Daily News (Scott Liddle) Candlesticks, tobacco and pipes, almond paste, a flag, and a light Cairene donkey-saddle are some of the items a traveler should acquire for a journey in Egypt according to Murray’s Guide to Egypt, published in 1847....
- 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
Tour guides at the Giza ask for tourists to return
The Telegraph, UK (Nick Meo)
Some held up signs with a Valentine's Day theme saying "Egypt loves you" and insisted that it was safe for foreigners to come back. The tourist industry has been badly hit by weeks of turmoil at the peak of the holiday season, costing perhaps billions of pounds of lost income for the nation. Tour guides and camel drivers who live off tips from wealthy visitors have earned nothing for weeks and many have suffered real hardship.
"We need to make tourism come back to Egypt," said Hossam Khairy, 27.
"We want to send the message to tourists all over the world that they are welcome here. They will discover a new country and new people." The three great pyramids, one of the wonders of the ancient world, were virtually deserted on Monday, with only two nervous-looking Spaniards and a handful of Egyptian visitors making the most of a rare chance to visit the site without hordes of tourists. Touts who usually pester visitors were also absent, with only a handful trying half-heartedly to sell postcards or plastic sphinxes.
- 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...
- Egypt Tourism Remains In Disarray
Al Masry Al Youm From the Pyramids of Giza to the Red Sea resorts, tourist numbers have plummeted to just a trickle, dealing a devastating blow to the millions of Egyptians whose livelihoods depend on the 14 million or so visitors who once thronged to...
- The State Of Tourism Following The Crisis
Forex Yard (Shaimaa Fayed and Peter Millership) Young Egyptians have launched an "Egypt is Safe" campaign, students are cleaning up national monuments and drivers now take visitors around Cairo's Tahrir Square as an attraction, anything to get the...
- Egyptian Tour Guides
Egypt Daily News (Scott Liddle) Candlesticks, tobacco and pipes, almond paste, a flag, and a light Cairene donkey-saddle are some of the items a traveler should acquire for a journey in Egypt according to Murray’s Guide to Egypt, published in 1847....
- 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...