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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Albino_Eskimo: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by SayWhatYouSee: [qb] Albino, where do you get your statistics from? It's important to recognise tourism catagories. Your argument appeared to relate to American holidaymakers - then swiftly changed to American Egyptians. Travel Daily news (August 3 2006) indicates a figure considerably lower than the millions you suggest:[/qb][/QUOTE]I don't think my argument is flawed at all. only a few million of Americans make the trip to Egypt each year which is a fraction of the visitors to Egypt. :D [/QB][/QUOTE] [b]During the first six months of 2006, there were [b]118,044 [/b] American visits, surpassing last year’s total by 20.1% and the record-setting 2000 number of 114,468 by 3%. The record-setting performance was bolstered in June 2006 when there were 19,656 American visits, a 16.6% increase over the same period in 2005. [/b] As you can see, American visits have increased but they remain a teeny fraction of the 8 million plus visitors every year. [/QB][/QUOTE] Sorry I meant millions of Egyptians or Americans with Egyptians ethnicity (if not nationality). I haven't ate a solid meal in 5 days due to a partial wisdom tooth extraction (and it will take a month before I am back to normal) so I am weak, obviously it is affecting my communication skills. Not millions of American tourists, but millions of Egyptian Americans and Americans with Egyptian family ties that are not being targeted by the Egyptian tourism authority. The Egyptian tourism authority would rather target young and old Europeans with 6 weeks of vacation every year. God knows Egyptians pump millions if not billions of dollars in remittances back into Egypt from the west. So screw what they will spend on a vacation. :rolleyes: [/QB][/QUOTE]
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