The Long Road to African Tourism Recovery

Summer 2021 / Essays

The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the tourism industry in 2020, but this year a slow vaccine rollout and new variants means it will take a while to recover to pre-pandemic levels.

Regulating Change in Historic Cairo

June 3, 2021 / Tahrir Forum

Renovation and conservation projects in Historic Cairo fall within a complex legal framework, which sometimes does more to hinder development than to promote it.

Global Tourism Post COVID-19 and the Island Model

March 1, 2021 / Midan

A recovery in tourism, one of the hardest hit industries by the COVID-19 pandemic, is inevitably tied to health considerations. It also depends on governments’ willingness to move away from old models toward long-term sustainability.

Reviving Botswana’s Tourism Industry after COVID-19

June 23, 2020 / COVID-19: Global Crisis

Countries which depend on tourism as a major revenue source have been struggling in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis.

The Last Tourist in Luxor

April 12, 2020 / Essays

During the coronavirus pandemic, the crown jewel of Egypt’s economy, tourism, is suffering, but people are coming together to make the best of a bad situation.