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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...
- Tourism: Attention Turns To Virgin Travel Territory
The Financial Times (Alex Dziadosz) Another article in the Egypt Report from the Financial Times (mentioned in the post above). The vendors of Cairo’s Khan el-Khalily bazaar provide a colourful barometer of international wealth. The richer a country...
- Tourism: From Now Until 2011
State Information Service One million tourists visited in July 2007 One million tourists of various nationalities converged on Egypt in July, up 20 per cent from the corresponding period last year, said Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics...
- Egypt Gets Record 9.7m Visitors In 2006-07
Gulf News Egypt received a record 9.7 million visitors in 2006-07, 13 per cent up on 8.6 million in the previous year, state news agency MENA said on Monday. Egypt's financial year runs from July to June. The visitors brought $8.2 billion to the country,...
- 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...
Egypt
Tourism: Egypt enjoys golden year
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Egypt’s promise of sun, sea, sand and culture brought German tourists in record numbers last year. In total, 1.2 million Germans flocked to the Land of the Pharaohs, a figure topped only by the Russians. However, with a total of 14.3 million room nights, Germans stayed longer, representing a jump of nearly 26 per cent over 2007.
The German performance contributed to a buoyant year for Egypt, which attracted 12.8 million visitors in total, a rise of 15 per cent over the previous year. Speaking at ITB, Egyptian tourism minister Zoheir Garranah said the country enjoyed 25 per cent growth until September when the economic downturn started to bite.
“What will happen in 2009 is the million dollar question, but we realise it is going to be a very tough year,” he said. “We need to work quickly and very aggressively to minimise losses from the business.”
The minister explained such measures include close co-operative marketing with tour operators, organising press and trade familiarisation trips to the country, and working to attract incentive groups and charter packages. The decision by German travel association DRV to hold its annual conference in Port Ghalib and Luxor in December is set to bring in another 1,000 or so industry visitors.
See the above page for the full story.
- 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...
- Tourism: Attention Turns To Virgin Travel Territory
The Financial Times (Alex Dziadosz) Another article in the Egypt Report from the Financial Times (mentioned in the post above). The vendors of Cairo’s Khan el-Khalily bazaar provide a colourful barometer of international wealth. The richer a country...
- Tourism: From Now Until 2011
State Information Service One million tourists visited in July 2007 One million tourists of various nationalities converged on Egypt in July, up 20 per cent from the corresponding period last year, said Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics...
- Egypt Gets Record 9.7m Visitors In 2006-07
Gulf News Egypt received a record 9.7 million visitors in 2006-07, 13 per cent up on 8.6 million in the previous year, state news agency MENA said on Monday. Egypt's financial year runs from July to June. The visitors brought $8.2 billion to the country,...
- 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...