Egypt holidays with coup

As a tourist in the Red Sea: A Power Exchange, anxious inquiries from the motherland and the pragmatic view of tourism professionals.

Makadi Bay beach

The tourists enjoy at the Makadi Bay beach, the sun, when suddenly four fighter jets of the Egyptian military rather low thunder of time flying in formation over the resorts, shoot a bow again and offer her acting. On the road between Hurghada and Sahl Hasheesh control cars are apparently controlled particularly well with only Egyptian inmates, tourists are allowed through. Marshals sitting on a young soldier, holding in his hand a pennant with the national flag.

It's one day after the change of power in Egyptian. I'm with my family holiday in the Red Sea. Normally I will not blogging. But usually not the government of the host country is then swept away by the military and I get worried emails and text messages from family and colleagues, because even if everything was in order.

If we call journalists in such circumstances the organizers, we always hear that we should avoid Cairo, but in the resorts of the Red Sea, all was quiet. Now I can confirm from my own experience this standard set. Finally, most of Egyptian bath objectives are developed from the retort collections of (usually very nice) hotel. In Hurghada and the surrounding area comes in glorious summer weather everything as usual, the events in Cairo are not only geographically remote, and fighter jets apparently framed the swearing in of the interim president Adil Mansur, the only real indication of the poltiische events (this also for info Tourist Klaus Brähmig politicians who already makes precautionary thoughts on the security situation).

An Egyptian hotel employee told me that President Mohamed Morsi have not exactly promoted tourism and so far it is good that he is gone now. But overall it was still a bad signal, the first freely elected president would already detained by the military after only one year. A German hotel boss, with whom I spoke in Hurghada, things look very pragmatic: by the military acted so quickly after the mass protests, hopefully will avoid a period of uncertainty. Finally now, the catalogs are important for Egypt for the winter season on the market, the unrest on the anniversary of the revolution in January had already cost enough family bookings for the summer.

The owner should also speak other tourism professionals from the soul. As President Mursi end of January in Berlin wooed investment for his country, the enthusiasm of travel managers present held within narrow limits. Because the Islamist Although in his speech a lot of tourism, but meant only the cultural treasures of the Nile, not the holiday with alcohol and bikinis at the beach, which apparently was for him as a necessary evil to maintain the all-important economic sector.

So we are hoping for a fresh start with a hopefully capable Tourism Minister (whether in the German industry cherished Hisham Zaazou again making a comeback?). The country and its friendly and hospitable people, it would only hope. In any case I'm as happy tourists again!

@http://blog.fvw.de/index.cfm/2013/7/5/AegyptenUrlaub-mit-Staatsstreich