Tourism in Egypt .. "Made in China " Tourism in Egypt , China, Egypt Chinese tourists snapping a souvenir photo in front ...
Tourism in Egypt .. "Made in China "
Tourism in Egypt , China, Egypt
Chinese tourists snapping a souvenir photo in front of the Pyramids of Giza
Lamia Radi - Abu Dhabi - Sky News Arabia
Cairo
airport lounge filled with her father 's reel hundreds of Chinese
tourists who are milling around the automatic belt waiting for their
bags they are talking all at one time after spending flight duration of
10 hours to be the only foreign visitors to Egypt , with the exception
of some Westerners.
He
says Fathi , who works baggage porter at Cairo International Airport , "
They are more tourists who see them in such large numbers at the moment
."
He
adds: "They come by the hundreds every day and what we saw only
tourists not to exceed the number of fingers in the day, after it had
been uninterrupted stream of foreigners ."
The tourist says Bao Yu: " I want to see the pyramids and the Sphinx and to ride a boat on the Nile ."
And in broken English : " I do not fear the unrest, if there was violence of what our government allowed us to come ."
China
had lifted the ban on the visit Egypt in August 2012 , after it had
been banned its citizens from going to it because of the unrest and
violence that accompanied and followed the revolution of January 25 ,
2011.
It was about 107 thousand Chinese tourists visited Egypt in 2010.
The
Egyptian Minister of Tourism Hisham Zazoua that Egypt is working to
increase the number of Chinese tourists from 160 thousand to 200
thousand tourists tourists by the end of 2013.
He
explained that the month of August 2012 saw a remarkable Chinese
tourism , and there was a marked increase by 5.26 per cent from the same
period in 2011.
And
said Zazoua , in a press statement , said that the increase flights
between Egypt and China , which was agreed to be 4 flights a week ,
regulate EgyptAir In addition to the launch of the " charter flights ."
He
noted that the granting of the visa facilities to Chinese tourists is
one of the most important steps taken to encourage tourists to come in
large numbers to Egypt.
He
expected to double the number of Chinese tourists coming to the country
through the activation of Air Transport Agreement signed between the
civil aviation authorities between Beijing and Cairo, and to grant visas
to tour groups as soon as they arrive at Egyptian airports and
coordination with a number of airlines operating in the Chinese market
for the transfer of tourist traffic to Egypt through the organization of joint flights to more than one country in the region.
As
the President of the Egyptian Federation of Chambers of Tourism ,
Inspirational Zayat , that by 2020 will come from China, 150 million
tourists Egypt's share of them will be " 2
million " tourists annually.
million " tourists annually.
