A few weeks back, I met the tourism minister, who I thought was excellent and had a sensible plan to revive the sector. A few days later, he resigned, after Morsi took the mind-boggling step of appointing as Governor of Luxor province (a key tourist destination) someone who was affiliated with the group responsible for the terrorist attack in 1997 – Egypt’s worst ever – in which more than 60 tourists in Luxor were killed.
内阁各部的部长已经竭尽全力。几周前我还见过旅游部长，在我看来他很出色，制定了重振旅游行业的合理计划。但短短几天后他就被迫辞职，因为穆尔西不可思议地任命某个和1997年恐怖袭击有关的人担任重要旅游胜地卢克索省的省长职务，1997年袭击是埃及有史以来最严重的恐怖袭击，卢克索省有60多名游客因此而丧生。