The Guardian: Egypt's revenues from tourism dropped by 95% since the January revolution



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  Egyptian tourism revenues have seen a sharp decline since the January 25 revolution and the subsequent political crises have made the effects of ancient Egypt a few visitors, and thus affected the Egyptian economy, which depends mainly on what intervention of tourism income and hard currency, according to published by the Guardian. She Guardian, quoting Minister of Antiquities Mamdouh Damati in an interview made ​​with the channel axis Egyptian private that the proceeds of the Egyptian tourism fell from 3 billion pound in 2010 to 125 million Egyptian pounds in 2014, making the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, which derives its money from tourism is able to pay the salaries of its employees due to lack of revenue
. Influenced by the movement of the Egyptian tourism unrest political accompanied by reports of a negative in the media about the security and the general atmosphere in Egypt, making a lot of Western countries warn their citizens against visiting Egypt, who made the number of tourists in the Egyptian hotels fall from 14.7 million in 2010 to 9 million just a year 2013 crisis began with the Red Sea resorts, moving then to the archeological sites in various Egyptian cities such as Cairo, Aswan and Luxor, where the Ministry receives the majority of its revenue Egyptian Antiquities material. The Guardian report says, citing Minister of Egyptian Antiquities, said that the city of Luxor has seen in months, a descent of only 264 tourists in its hotels, according to city police reports, a city which is rich in Pharaonic antiquities. He says, "Mina birth", a news magazine Luxor Times, The tourist traffic has become dead in the city, but is worse than in 1997, a year which saw the massacre of Temple Hchesbot that killed radical group of German tourists, and adds, "birthday" that many have left the profession Tourism to move to other occupations. On his part, Minister of Tourism, "Hisham Zaazou," said Egypt has seen the arrival of a large number of Arab tourists this year, but most of them went to the resorts of the Red Sea and Sinai, pointing out that there is a great challenge to re-tourist traffic to cities such as Aswan and Luxor

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