Under the slogan Moving Beyond Awareness into Action , the agreement allows both sides to provide basic Y2K planning, testing, and strategy development to trainees. The partners also are offering training to help Egyptian private businesses resolve their Y2k problems using Egyptian private sector resources. Twelve American writers have praised government moves to make visitors feel safe in Egypt and said the American media should help correct the detrimental image some people still harbor of this country. During their trip, they toured Pharaonic sites and museums in Cairo and Luxor. Some continued on to Hurghada.
Egyptian officials see enormous potential in the largely untapped American market.
We want more Americans, said Omayma El Husseini, deputy director of the Egyptian tourism office in New York, who accompanied the travel writers. She said that more trips for travel writers and tour operators will be organized in the coming months. Al Ahram Weekly Up in the Sky NileSat s specialized channels seem to be working hard to attract wider audience. The fundamental problem, of course, is the price of the receiver needed to watch satellite TV in the first place. On this point, we are assured that plans are afoot to enable transmission directly through satellite dishes, thus making a decoder redundant.