[quote=Reuters]
CAIRO (Reuters) - Young Egyptians have launched an "Egypt is Safe" campaign, students are cleaning up national monuments and drivers now take visitors around Cairo's Tahrir Square as an attraction, anything to get the tourists back.
Sites around the great pyramid at Giza, a Wonder of the Ancient World, the Sphinx and the cemetery at Sakkara have been nearly empty of tourists since a revolt started a month ago that ousted Hosni Mubarak, and now Egypt wants visitors to return.
"In terms of reviving tourism, the problem is currently Libya not us. The whole region is very hot right now," Karim Mohsen, managing director of Sylvia Tours Egypt, said, referring to an uprising against Muammar Gaddafi in the western neighbour.
"Libya is on the border with Egypt and what people see happening there is terrible and therefore they're afraid to come to the area," Mohsen told Reuters, in a view reflected by other tour operators and guides who expected several more idle weeks.
Those trying to draw tourists back to cruises down the Nile and Egypt's ancient artefacts want to turn the nation's political turmoil to their advantage. One proposed slogan suggests the revolution is "One More Reason to Visit Egypt."
Hundreds of students at Giza, visited by statesmen from Jimmy Carter to Napoleon and usually bustling with thousands of tourists, rallied at the weekend with "Egypt is Safe" signs, hoping to get the message over to the rest of the world.
"Please tell your friends not to fear the revolution. This is the new Egypt and it welcomes, you," said Heba, 18.
Life in Egypt is still far from normal, with many schools still shut, weekly mass protests at Tahrir Square, a curfew and tanks with soldiers at key intersections in Cairo.
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Hahaha, that's advertising for ya. :v:
I want to go to Egypt. Maybe for the summer before I go off to college.
"Egypt: it's not just for rebels anymore."
"Egypt: Visit us now before the next revolution starts, the clock is ticking!"
Come for the pyramids, stay for the revolution!
I hear hotel prices are really low during the revolution season.
[i]"Lots of fun activities to do in a political climate of instability, corruption, civil rebellion, and utter chaos, don't 'ya know?!
Watch people shoot at each other in the streets! Make molotov cocktails and hurl them at stuff! Swarm the riot police with 30 other people and beat them senseless! Wave flags and shout patriotic slogans! Smuggle arms and goods through security checkpoints in the middle of the night! THE FUN NEVER HAS TO END!"[/i]
Gentlemen, this is the base of our marketing campaign. Let's get out there and start attracting patrons and tourists.
[editline]28th February 2011[/editline]
By the way, did we ever reach an agreement on what to push for with regards to the Somalian tourism proposal?
[QUOTE=LunchboxOfDoom;28350528][i]"Lots of fun activities to do in a political climate of instability, corruption, civil rebellion, and utter chaos, don't 'ya know?!
Watch people shoot at each other in the streets! Make molotov cocktails and hurl them at stuff! Swarm the riot police with 30 other people and beat them senseless! Wave flags and shout patriotic slogans! Smuggle arms and goods through security checkpoints in the middle of the night! THE FUN NEVER HAS TO END!"[/i]
Gentlemen, this is the base of our marketing campaign. Let's get out there and start attracting patrons and tourists.
[editline]28th February 2011[/editline]
By the way, did we ever reach an agreement on what to push for with regards to the Somalian tourism proposal?[/QUOTE]
let's make a country based on constant tourism through constant civil war
then it will end up like star wars, how many fucking planets did they visit while trying to defeat the empire?
I like the Egyptians. Such nice people.
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