Egyptian Tourism’s Message to World: Come Anyway - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/09/world/middleeast/egypts-tourism-industry-grows-desperate-amid-sustained-turmoil.html?emc=edi
CAIRO — “We’ve missed you,” Egypt’s ministry of tourism says in its new advertising campaign, a plaintive plea for summer visitors from wealthy countries in the Persian Gulf.
That is putting it mildly. For three years now, political turmoil has scared many travelers away from Egypt, leaving millions of people whose livelihoods depend on visitors desperate for any sign of an end to the most sustained tourism crisis anyone here can recall.