Sun and sand holidays underpinned North African economies but incidents in Sousse and Sharm el-Sheikh have led to severe drop in visitor numbersOff the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez,a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most well-liked diving sites.
A year ago Ras Mohammed national park would have been crowded with boats above and hundreds of divers below the water, or but nowadays’s visitors have the blue depths almost to themselves. After the bombing of a Russian tourist jet shortly after takeoff from nearby Sharm el-Sheikh final year,most flights to the area were cancelled and tourists have mostly stayed absent.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com