Title: Tourism Standstill in Egypt
Producer: Assia Boundaoui.
Length: 4.52
http://www.worldvisionreport.org/Stories/Week-of-February-19-2011/Tourism-Standstill-in-Egypt
This feature is talking about the effects of revolution on tourism and the people who make their living from the tourism industry.
Since the revolution started many people have lost their jobs as a result of a seemingly declining economy, and ahead of these people are all the people who are associated with tourism. As many tourists went back home or canceled their trips.
Like this man khamis now cant find the money for a whole day supply of food and many others are in the same situation. But still they remain optimistic and hope for a better future.
The article is really interesting, because she describes everything from the sands and pyramids to the things in the shops, which made the feature comes to life and makes me feel like I am there. Also the background sounds of horses and the man speaking in Arabic makes the feature like a movie in the listener’s imagination were he/she can hear and imaginably see and feel what’s going on.
But I think that the writer or narrator generalized that all the Egyptians are happy, while that’s not true because I know for a fact that many are not happy, specially the ones who lost their jobs. As a proof of that, we can say that many of the people who drove their camels and horses into Tahrir Square were from the tourism sector. And in defense to what they did in spreading chaos, I remember hearing on a TV show one of the camel or horses owners called and said, that they were told that people in Tahrir are protesting and if they did nothing their jobs will be on the line, so they drove their camels and horses to stop it. so not all of them were pro the protests, but many attempted to stop it. So she might have considered talking to pro and against the protests to get the listeners to see different points of view.
I cant deny, that its really interesting that she ended the feature with a question: “how long will it take for the change to come and for how long will people remain optimistic about the future?” by ending the feature with questions, she made the listener think about what he/she just heard and continue wondering, long after the feature is already done.
Other than that the voice and language was so clear, also the speed the narrator talked was very understandable, with a calm nice voice. And the length is good for the topic, because if it was shorter, I wouldn’t have known all I am supposed to know, and if it was longer I would have been a bit bored.
The website is a very friendly and easy website, as I am not a very technology friendly person, but yet the website was easy to deal with.
