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The target of drawing over 18 million tourists to Greece this season remains attainable... with signs from the British market being particularly positive.However... there are a number of external factors that may have a significant impact on the number of international arrivals this year and could threaten the growth in tourism revenues, which is a key factor in the recovery of the local economy.
Egypt's tourism industry is battling to recover from what the tourism minister has described as its "worst year in modern history", after millions of tourists were put off visiting Egyptian resorts and heritage sites in 2013 by reports of civil unrest.The industry made £3.6bn in 2013, compared with £7.7bn in its record year of 2010, before the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak and led to three years of political instability. Only 9.5 million tourists stayed in Egypt's hotels in 2013, against 14.7 million in 2010, according to the tourism minister, Hisham Zaazou."You're talking about ghost cities," said Zaazou. Some of Egypt's most famous tourist towns had their worst month in September. "We were almost [at] zero [tourists] in some areas of Egypt – 1% [hotel occupancy] in Luxor, 0% in Abu Simbel, 0% in Aswan on some days. Here on the Red Sea, it was a bit better – but I'm talking about 10, 15, 20%. It was very bad. In modern history, in the years following our peak year of 2010, it was the worst year."On some days, there were only a handful of visitors to Luxor's Valley of the Kings, where Tutankhamun is buried, and where several thousand tourists would queue on a good day in 2010. During the worst trough, no more than five tourist ships operated on the Nile out of a fleet of about 250. In Luxor in December, the local government gave food handouts to families who make their living from giving carriage rides to tourists. "They had to choose between feeding their families and feeding their horses."
Women are being given false advice by unregulated counsellors that having an abortion can turn them into child sex abusers and increase the risk of breast cancer and sterility, according to an undercover investigation.
The vice-president of the European Commission was shocked and angered after her personal suitcase was stolen from an official car while she was debating Europe with members of the public in London. The car had been left unlocked.
QuoteThe vice-president of the European Commission was shocked and angered after her personal suitcase was stolen from an official car while she was debating Europe with members of the public in London. The car had been left unlocked.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10629764/Viviane-Reding-robbed-after-EU-debate-in-London.html
Mrs Reding was particularly upset that a cottage pie she had bought from a London farmer's market at the weekend was stolen along with her personal effects.
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