Members of the Tourist Guides' Syndicate have said they are going on strike on 9 April in Hurghada and Luxor despite security warnings.
Foreign tour operators inquired whether the one-day trips from Hurghada to Luxor, which take about 1,000 tourists every day, would be affected by the strike.
The guides are protesting the delay in opening the Qena-Luxor desert road, which Bashar Abu Taleb, the syndicate representative in Hurghada, said was due to a lack of financial resources.
“We can no longer use the Nile agricultural road because kids in the villages throw stones at the tourists in the buses,” he said.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
