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Egyptian Tourism Industry Boost Not Enough

Egyptian authorities say the country’s sagging tourism industry is bouncing back, with a huge increase in visitors during the summer and early fall. But as resorts and historical sights enjoy the business, analysts say continued insecurity makes the sector in Egypt volatile, and not profitable enough to fix the country’s beleaguered economy.

On the shores and under the water of this resort town on the Sinai Peninsula, tourists see none of the insecurity the region is best known for in the news.

Egyptian officials say they hope, by next year, to return the tourism industry to its pre-2011 glory, when the industry pulled in more than $12 billion in a year.

Egyptian tourism minister Hisham Zaazou said the hope and challenge was to be able to report a significant restoration of the sector in the first part of next year. But analysts said this challenge was considerable because the industry relied on international public perception of safety in Egypt at a time of continued unrest.

Lebanese American University Political Science Professor Sami Baroudi called for economic diversity.

“Tourism is a very important but volatile sector. So you cannot pin your economic strategy on a sector that one or two bombings or one or two basically assassinations may impact adversely,” he said.

For Egypt to alleviate widespread crushing poverty, he said, the country needed to invest in industry and export goods. But unlike the export business, he added, Egypt’s tourism industry already had the infrastructure and expertise in place.

“You have to bear in mind all the investments that have been done in the tourism sector, all the jobs in Egypt that are tied to tourism. The government cannot but give high priority to this sector,” said Baroudi.

But economists say even if the government succeeds in convincing visitors to once again crowd into its cities and on its shores, the country will still need to rely heavily on foreign aid to keep afloat after three years of political turmoil that collapsed two Egyptian governments.

“It is not enough to help Egypt to take off because the events that took place between 2011 until 2013 had ended the economy significantly,” said Marwan Iskander, a veteran economist with Banque Pharaon & Chiha in Lebanon.

Protests and clashes continue in Egypt, threatening to dial back some of the recent successes in the tourism industry.

On the other hand, Isaknder said new markets were opening up, with a large increase of Russian tourists to Egypt in recent years.

And tour guides here said despite the insecurity they, like the iconic Nile River, would endure indefinitely.

詞匯解析

numerous

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.為數(shù)眾多的；許多

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

The Earth is only one of the numerous planets in the universe.

地球只是宇宙中眾多星球中的一個。

Numerous interruptions have prevented me from finishing my work.

我屢遭攪擾以致工作未能完成。

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strategic

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.戰(zhàn)略的；重要的；基本的

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

We made a strategic withdrawal, so that we could build up our forces for a renewed attack.

我們作了一次戰(zhàn)略性退卻，以便我們能積蓄力量再次進攻。

At this meeting we grappled with the most important, strategic issues in our economic relationship.

在本次會議期間，我們重點討論了兩國經濟關系中最重要的戰(zhàn)略問題。

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newly

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adv.新近地；重新地

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The newly published American novel sold like hot cakes.

那部新出版的美國小說是市場上的暢銷貨。

I am cooking apple pies with my newly bought frying pan.

我正在用我新買的煎鍋做蘋果餡餅。

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Soviet

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.蘇聯(lián)的；蘇維埃的

n.蘇維埃

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.

朱可夫是前蘇聯(lián)的一位元帥。

用作名詞 (n.)

The Soviet base would not soon collapse.

蘇維埃的基礎不會馬上崩潰的。

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satellite

難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞

英漢解釋

n.衛(wèi)星；人造衛(wèi)星

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用作名詞 (n.)

The bbc is hooked up with Australian television by satellite.

英國廣播公司通過衛(wèi)星與澳大利亞電視實行聯(lián)播。

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virtual

難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞

英漢解釋

adj.實質的；【計】虛擬的

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

Our deputy manager is the virtual head of the business.

我們的副經理是公司的實際負責人。

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separate

難度：5星基本詞匯，屬常用1000詞

英漢解釋

adj.分開的；不同的；單獨的；各自的

v.分開；隔開；區(qū)分；分居；脫離

n.分開；抽印本

參考例句

用作形容詞 (adj.)

Can these two definitions be conflated, or must they be kept separate?

這兩個定義可以合成一個呢，還是必須分開?

用作動詞 (v.)

We should never separate from the masses.

我們絕不應該脫離群眾。

用作名詞 (n.)

It's hard for me to separate the two fighting boys.

我很難把這兩個打架的孩子分開。

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