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Tourist guides on strike 9 April

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http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/to ... ke-9-april

Al-Masry Al-Youm
Members of the Tourist Guides' Syndicate have said they are going on strike on 9 April in Hurghada and Luxor despite security warnings.

Foreign tour operators inquired whether the one-day trips from Hurghada to Luxor, which take about 1,000 tourists every day, would be affected by the strike.

The guides are protesting the delay in opening the Qena-Luxor desert road, which Bashar Abu Taleb, the syndicate representative in Hurghada, said was due to a lack of financial resources.

“We can no longer use the Nile agricultural road because kids in the villages throw stones at the tourists in the buses,” he said.


Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm


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Re: Tourist guides on strike 9 April

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What they need to do, is have someone throw a handful of coins out of the bus as they pass by. say, LE 5, in 25 Piastre coins.
That will keep the kids busy as the buses pass though, and the kids can spend the money in the local shops, or give it to the family.. :cool:

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The situation over which they were going to strike was already resolved earlier today.
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If the tour guides stayed on strike I am sure the tourist industry would benefit tremendously… :cool:
Ps: I class them lower than calesh drivers..
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It reminds me of the 'dirty dozen' a group a London black cabbies, if they were taking people to Kings X or similar train stations in the knowledge their passengers were heading for an airport, the drivers would slip in a cassette with false warnings of train delays on their cab radios allowing the cabby to drive all the way to the chosen airport charging a fortune and receiving a tip from the more than grateful passengers…. :cool:
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Bullet Magnet wrote:What they need to do, is have someone throw a handful of coins out of the bus as they pass by. say, LE 5, in 25 Piastre coins.
That will keep the kids busy as the buses pass though, and the kids can spend the money in the local shops, or give it to the family.. :cool:

Every little helps.. :cg
Or, even better still, give each tourist on the bus a rock of their own to throw at the rock throwing kids. :up Just tell the tourists its a tradition going back centuries and it is expected of them. The vast majority are so thick, looking out of their windows to try and catch a glimpse of the pyramids they would be only too happy to comply. Lead by example. :D
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Well, I suppose it would be a different way of getting stoned, rather than the usual, if one had to make such a journey as that, I certainly would need to be.
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Tourists guides going on strike right now would be like ice cream makers striking in the dead of Winter.. :br
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Someone needs a new Abacus!
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Major Thom wrote:Someone needs a new Abacus!
That comment just doesn't add up.
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