{"id":44811,"date":"2013-05-21T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/egypts-tourism-revenues-up\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:12:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:12:14","slug":"egypts-tourism-revenues-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypts-tourism-revenues-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s tourism revenues up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Egypt posted US$ 3.4 billion in tourism revenues in quarter one this year, up 16.2% from quarter one 2012. During the period, the North African country received three million visitors, up 11.8% from quarter one last year. The information was released on the website of Qatar&rsquo;s Al Jazeera TV. <\/p>\n<p>According to the site, prior to the popular uprising that overthrew the then-president Hosni Mubarak in early 2011, the tourism industry accounted for over 10% of the country&rsquo;s GDP.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Egypt received 14.7 million visitors and obtained US$ 12.5 billion in revenues. In 2011, the Arab Spring caused tourist inflow to drop to 9.8 million, and revenues to decline to US$ 8.8 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian minister of Tourism, Hicham Zazou, told Al Jazeera that in the long run, the country is hoping to attract 30 million tourists a year, and post US$ 25 billion in revenues by the year 2022. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country posted US$ 3.4 billion in tourism earnings in quarter one this year, up 16.2% from quarter one last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The country posted US$ 3.4 billion in tourism earnings in quarter one this year, up 16.2% from quarter one last year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}