Tourists remain frightened by militant action but government poses its own threat It is not only ‘terror attacks’ that give Egypt a bad name internationally

Source:
Daily News Egypt
Date of source:
9 Sep 2015

On 10 June, three men bearing weapons and an explosive device attempted to attack the 4,000 year old Karnak Temple in Luxor. The Pharaonic complex has been a site of tourism for hundreds of years, bur today’s media is more attentive and less forgiving than at any time in history, and within hours, foreign media carried the news across the world. Headlines of the attempted suicide attack again set back the image of safety and stability the Egyptian government has been desperately trying to project.

Promisingly, Jess, a British tourist who visited Egypt in May, agrees that the perception of Egypt’s stability is misguided: “Although I had heard from the news about the revolution and how turbulent things had been in Egypt, I checked blogs that seemed reputable and noticed that most recent travellers had visited with no problems, and, if anything, were trying to encourage people to visit as the tourism industry has clearly taken such a hit.

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