Posted on 06/14/2014 8:04:43 AM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
Tour operators in Egypt have this week held a conference to urge Italian tourists to return, after instability in the country prompted a crisis in the travel industry following the 2011 ousting of dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Around 700 tour operators gathered this week at the ‘United for Egypt’ conference held at the Port Ghalib resort, La Stampa reported.
Organizers from both countries hoped the meeting would give a much-needed boost to tourism to Egypt, which has seen a dramatic fall-off in recent years.
“In 2008 in Egypt there were 1,073,159 Italian travellers. That number literally collapsed and in 2013 local tourists to the coast numbered just 504,110,” Hisham Zaazou, Egypt’s tourism minister, was quoted in La Stampa as saying.
The Egyptian tourism industry has been in difficulty since Mubarak was driven out of power in February 2011, after a 30-year rule, prompting fears among travellers of instability in the country.
Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi was elected president the following year, only to be ousted in a military coup in July 2013. Last month Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, a former army general, won fresh presidential elections with a reported 96.9 percent of the vote.
While some tourists have returned to Egypt, Ahmed Abdallah, governor of the Red Sea Governorate, said that Italians were more cautious than other nationalities.
“The influx of Italians is the only one that immediately saw a collapse of dramatic proportions,” he was quoted as saying. “The Russians continued to come, they make up 55 percent of the visitors, and nor have the Germans abandoned [Egypt].”
Paolo Mieli, president of publisher RCS, urged fellow Italians to return to Egypt. “For us Italians this country has for so long signified mystery and fascination...we must return, because this is a bit like our home.”
But the Italian foreign ministry remains wary. “Considering the progressively deteriorating security situation we advise against travel in the entire Sinai peninsula,” the ministry said in its latest travel advisory.
“We advise against all but essential travel in Egypt to a number of places and tourist areas in northern Egypt, the continental coast of the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea,” the Italian foreign ministry said.
Perhaps we are seeing an early stage of a “virtual embargo” of the islamic dystopias by the civilized world?
Come to Egypt! See your wife and daughter gang raped by lusty Muslim men before your very eyes for free in Takrit Square!
Christian infidels we invite you to Come to Egypt! Where you can visit the plundered Egyptian museums and look at where the artifacts and history of Egypt used to be before Muslim hordes desecrated, destroyed, plundered and stole them because they were not honoring to "The prophet" and Mad Mo's religion of pieces (I.e., if you don't renounce your Infidel faith and convert to Islam, we will cut you to pieces).
Infidels, Come back to Egypt for "Adventure and Excitement" to last a lifetime!: See if you can make it through the hour, the day, your entire "vacation" without being kidnapped, gang raped or having your head cut off!
The Egyptian government and tourist industry can try and push the lie that Egypt is safe for tourists and that it is safe to visit BUT the overwhelming majority of people in Egypt are Muslims, many of whom would gladly do any and all of the above to ANY foreign "infidel" foolish enough to step foot in Egypt!
If I want to study Egypt and its history, I will visit and study it from the safety of my computer or encyclopedia. At least there I will not have to live in constant fear of the normal, terrors and horrors of Islam and the adherents of Mad Mo which are being perpetrated against "infidels" AND Muslims alike on a daily, even hourly basis, all over the world in every country where the blood-thirsty "religion of pieces" has taken root.
"Come to Egypt... and Die!". Yes, that's a great and fitting tourist ad.
We're running out of Western women to rape.
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