نقص العملة يهدد برامج الحج السياحية في مصر ويرفع التكاليف لأكثر من 40%
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00:00 A new crisis imposed by the sharp shortage of foreign currency on the tourism programs in Egypt has prompted companies to cover their financial needs,
00:08 especially the booking of hotels, pilgrim camps and the drawings of transfers from the Mwazia market.
00:14 Countries that equal 60% of the total value of pilgrimages.
00:18 This is a challenge for tourism companies, which is a direct result of the loss due to the return of the pounds in exchange for currencies.
00:27 The biggest challenge facing tourism companies is to provide the currency in order to be able to make our reservations in Saudi Arabia.
00:35 This is not completely available because the Ministry of Tourism said that we are making an effort to ensure that tourism companies can cover the pounds.
00:43 We have a very big problem now. The pounds available in the market, which is a very large difference in the exchange rate,
00:49 and the very large gap between the official exchange rate and the exchange rate in the market, is number one.
00:55 Secondly, companies themselves are now facing a very difficult time in managing the pounds, because it is illegal.
01:01 While the local currency withdrawals had a big impact on the increase in the prices of pilgrim programs by 40% as a minimum,
01:08 the booking of the million pounds was doubled with other companies, which made it stand out in front of the desire of many to practice one of their most important religious rituals.
01:18 Hajj is a fundamental and obligatory ritual of God. People will leave it, because they don't have a priority.
01:28 They can do it, but they have priorities. Hajj is the only way we can do it.
01:33 I don't want to say the dollar, the economy, and the Hajj is the most important thing in Egypt.
01:38 But in the past, it was not like that at all. Even the age, I won't say the Hajj, the age was also, how many months, 13,000.
01:49 I was going to do the age last month, and that's true. I went to the bank, I wanted to withdraw money,
01:55 but they didn't accept more than a thousand riyals. So I have a thousand riyals with me, my wife and my son,
02:01 I mean, how am I going to live with them?
02:03 The prices of Hajj are very expensive. Even if people are with them, they won't be able to perform Hajj.
02:09 This has won 23,000 citizens in the e-Qura'an for the tourist Hajj, of which 58,000 are advanced,
02:16 while the number of special visas has reached 28,000.
02:20 Thus, the Egyptian tourist population has reached 51,000 individuals.
02:25 This is how the difficulties and difficulties of spending have led to the strengthening of the programs of Hajj.
02:29 We have seen an increase in the prices for citizens and a pressure on tourist companies to meet their needs from foreign currencies.
02:37 Farouk Youssef, CNBC Arabia, Cairo.
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