{"id":599534,"date":"2019-01-02T04:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/01\/02\/egypt-hopes-gem-bodes-well-for-tourism\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T04:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T04:14:27","slug":"egypt-hopes-gem-bodes-well-for-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2019\/01\/02\/egypt-hopes-gem-bodes-well-for-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt hopes GEM bodes well for tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Coverage of Egypt in the international press has been muted <\/b>since Christmas Day, with the most significant coverage being accorded to an IED attack on a bus near the Pyramids carrying Vietnamese tourists that killed four. Coverage of the attack quickly faded, but it overshadowed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5832e9f0-02a8-11e9-99df-6183d3002ee1\">a Financial Times feature by Heba Saleh on the Grand Egyptian Museum<\/a> that had been published just prior to the attack. 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