Tourism sector in Egypt hopes for the revolution
Breach of the Egyptian revolution hotels, nightclubs and bars of tourist activity which employs one out of every eight Egyptians, but workers in this sector expect to be healing quickly and revive their revolution in the long term.
Revenues of Egypt, which enjoys warm beaches throughout the year and a wealth of Pharaonic antiquities around $ 11 billion from tourism in 2009, according to the Ministry of Tourism, which accounts for more than ten gross domestic product.
The protests, which lasted 18 days of many countries to issue warnings against travel to Egypt, which disrupted the tourist activity. And become tourist sites such as the Pyramids of Giza, which is usually crowded with visitors free.
But workers in Sharm el-Sheikh say they hope to attract tourists after the country freed from the shackles of authoritarian rule.
Mahmoud said Ahalivi (30 years), who runs a restaurant open on the coast of the sea "We have a good feeling for the coming period. People come here five or six times and come back again. Maybe they will have a good feeling the next time .. a sense of freedom."
Said Hala al-Khatib, secretary general of the Chamber of hotel facilities, "I am very optimistic that tourism will rebound very quickly because I think that the tourists will see the revolution is a positive." She would not have noticed layoffs on a large scale so far.
Said Mahmoud, a contractor trips in Sharm el-Sheikh that he did not receive one client over a week ago, but are familiar with the succession of periods of recovery and recession.
Despite the decline in revenue, but that sympathy with the revolution among the people of the Sharm el-Sheikh many of whom came to the city of Cairo and the Delta to the lack of jobs there.
Revenues of Egypt, which enjoys warm beaches throughout the year and a wealth of Pharaonic antiquities around $ 11 billion from tourism in 2009, according to the Ministry of Tourism, which accounts for more than ten gross domestic product.
The protests, which lasted 18 days of many countries to issue warnings against travel to Egypt, which disrupted the tourist activity. And become tourist sites such as the Pyramids of Giza, which is usually crowded with visitors free.
But workers in Sharm el-Sheikh say they hope to attract tourists after the country freed from the shackles of authoritarian rule.
Mahmoud said Ahalivi (30 years), who runs a restaurant open on the coast of the sea "We have a good feeling for the coming period. People come here five or six times and come back again. Maybe they will have a good feeling the next time .. a sense of freedom."
Said Hala al-Khatib, secretary general of the Chamber of hotel facilities, "I am very optimistic that tourism will rebound very quickly because I think that the tourists will see the revolution is a positive." She would not have noticed layoffs on a large scale so far.
Said Mahmoud, a contractor trips in Sharm el-Sheikh that he did not receive one client over a week ago, but are familiar with the succession of periods of recovery and recession.
Despite the decline in revenue, but that sympathy with the revolution among the people of the Sharm el-Sheikh many of whom came to the city of Cairo and the Delta to the lack of jobs there.
