07-03-2015, 04:41 AM
quote:Indeed. The wife and I love to travel, but about a couple of decades back we decided to take a big red sharpie and cross all of north Africa and the Middle East off our map. Many others have done the same. Tourism has suffered, as have their economies.
Originally posted by Carey
We were in Egypt months after the Luxor massacre. The aftermath affected so many, esp. when a vacation area is so severely attacked, the economy crash for that local was life changing for thousands of locals.