06/02/2013
New State Department travel alert is bad news for Egypt
p/pWednesday brought another troubling development for the Egyptian economy, which relies heavily on tourism and has suffered mightily since protests broke out in January 2011: The U.S. State Department has issued a scary-sounding travel alert that it says applies through May. The alert cites ongoing violence, political unrest that could trigger yet more clashes and the proximity of demonstrations to the U.S. embassy compound in Cairo, which protesters attacked head-on in September. Though such travel alerts are common, it's a reminder that the State Department is not exactly encouraging Americans to visit Egypt in droves, not that they have been since 2011 anyway./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/new-state-department-travel-alert-is-bad-news-for-egypt/2013/02/06/56737d72-70a1-11e2-b3f3-b263d708ca37_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/284e4621/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984920819/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/284e4621/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/155984920819/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/284e4621/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/155984920819/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/284e4621/a2t.img" border="0"/
