{"id":123367,"date":"2010-01-01T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-3700469721574352177"},"modified":"2010-01-01T09:13:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:13:40","slug":"egypt-launches-new-campaign-to-lure-tourists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/123367","title":{"rendered":"Egypt launches new campaign to lure tourists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yhll5m3\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yhll5m3<\/a><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>Zawya.com<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>The Ministry of Tourism presented this week a new advertising campaign to lure tourists to <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>The previous campaign, &quot;The Gift of the Sun,&quot; launched in 2006 to mixed reviews. Some criticized the fact that the campaign did not emphasize <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>&#8216;s universally known antiquities, focusing instead on the appeal of its climate and the warmth of its people.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>The new campaign, announced Monday, has the slogan &quot;Egypt: where it all begins,&quot; and highlights the Pyramids, Sphinx and other uniquely Egyptian attractions while not failing to mention Egypt&#8217;s &quot;aquatic paradise.&quot;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'>Tourism to <st1:country-region w:st=\"on\"><st1:place w:st=\"on\">Egypt<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> was down 3.5 percent at the end of November, according to Omayma El-Husseini, Ministry of Tourism spokesperson. However, she described tourism figures as having, &quot;picked up beautifully&quot; in recent months.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-3700469721574352177?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yhll5m3 &nbsp; Zawya.com The Ministry of Tourism presented this week a new advertising campaign to lure tourists to Egypt. The previous campaign, &quot;The Gift of the Sun,&quot; launched in 2006 to mixed reviews. Some criticized the fact that the campaign did not emphasize Egypt&#8216;s universally known antiquities, focusing instead on the appeal of its climate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}