Quand on vend les chameaux utilisés pour les touristes au boucher, les affaires sont mauvaises...
"Tourists who flocked here by the millions annually now dribble through so sporadically that his two horse buggies sit unused many days and only 3 of 15 employees remain around the family stable and perfume shop.
“We can barely earn enough to feed ourselves, much less the horses and camels,” said Mr. Abu Ghaneima, pointing out the articulated rib cages and jutting hip bones of animals idling around a pretty little green square in his village, a stone’s throw from the Sphinx. “The revolution was beautiful, but nobody imagined the consequences.”
More than eight months after President Hosni Mubarak was toppled, the euphoria of Egypt’s political spring has surrendered to a season of discontent. There is widespread gloom that Egypt is again stagnating, its economy heading toward a cliff, while the caretaker government refuses or fails to act.
Tourism, a buttress of the economy upon which an estimated 15 million people depend, remains in a tailspin. Frequent strikes over pay and worker rights further erode long-battered government services from transportation to hospitals.
Mass demonstrations that have descended into sectarian riots, like the one on Oct. 9 that ended with 27 people dead after a harsh military response, have left the public uneasy that anarchy lurks.
Parliamentary elections, scheduled to start Nov. 28 and entailing three rounds ending Jan. 10, were meant to bring a sense of achievement and distill the uprising into a fairer, less corrupt political and economic system. But as campaigning begins Wednesday, the proliferation of more than 55 parties and about 6,600 candidates for 500 seats in the People’s Assembly inspires mostly confusion.
“The picture has become so muddled that we don’t know where we’re going — this is the problem,” said Rami Essam, the young heartthrob bard of the revolution, answering questions between guitar songs in Tahrir Square, where lackluster demonstrations still come together on most Fridays."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/world/middleeast/egypts-tourism-suffers-as-its-revolution-stalls.html?ref=world
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