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Egypt is threatened with removal from global tourism pamphlets
The violence in Tahrir Square has devastated an already rocky tourism sector in Egypt, say industry sources
Dalia Farouk Published in Ahram Online on 24 - 11 - 2011

The head of the Egyptian Federation of Tourism Chambers, Elhami Zayat, has told Ahram Online that Egypt is threatened with being removed from global touristic brochures if there is not an immediate cessation to the violence taking place in Tahrir Square.
"I do not agree with Egypt's minister of tourism who said that the country's tourism is not affected by the Tahrir events," Zayat added.
Zayat explained that while he was in the United States he has witnessed large drop in reservations of tours to Egypt, especially Cairo, Luxor and Aswan.
"The Egyptian government did not support the tourism sector," Zayat said at a press conference Monday.
"I noticed a lot of fear from many tourism operators when I was in the World Travel Market Conference in London," Thrwat Agami, head of the Luxor Touristic Chambers, told Ahram gate.
On other hand, several owners of hotels in downtown Cairo said that occupancy rates are at a maximum of 15 per cent, and most guests are journalists and TV channel reporters coming to cover the events at Tahrir Square, and parliamentary elections to follow. Tourists are few.
Samy Mahmoud, deputy chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Authority, stated Wednesday that he had received reports from the authority's offices around Egypt's governorates that showed there were many cancellations of trips to Egypt made by tour operators in many countries, mainly Britain, Italy, France and Japan, due to the violence in Tahrir Square since last Friday.

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