“Resort” goes beyond the potential of many Egyptians from high cost

Islam Adele (28 years old) and his family went around their summer trip to the coastal Marukh Marukh (north -west of Egypt) from a wave of high costs from which many Egyptians suffer.

Islam lives in the Imbaba area in Giza (west of Cairo), and in the morning he works as a music teacher, and in the evening he gives lessons to improve his income. Last year, his journey with two brothers, father and mother cost about 20 thousand pounds (the price of the dollar was about 48 pounds), but this number “requires at least 5 thousand pounds this year so that we can repeat this trip even with a fewer days,” which indicates that “he and his brothers are used to contribute to the cost of traveling with his father (retirement), but this is not more of higher ones) costs “.

Egypt recorded the annual inflation rate in June last year, which is 14.9 %, at a time when the country has been observing the economic crisis since 2016, which encouraged the government to borrow in the International Monetary Fund; The first in 2016, the other in 2023.

The family of Islam is one of many families, from different social segments that included the resort to the “list of arrangement” from high prices or changed its scheme after its expenses became outward.

To adapt to high prices, some have changed their summer destination, going to the Ain Al -Sukhna instead of the “coast” or Hurghada, while others reduced the number of days that they spend within two or three days instead of a week, or they rented a “chalet” (apartment) instead of going down to 5 -star hotel, while the others are one day on the beach, or in the beach, or in the beach, or in the beach. Water GOST, or on the beach or in water games.

As for those who refused the travel of the resort in general, their capabilities could not place any of his plans, including Alaa Muhammad (33 years old), a housewife who lives in the Haram area, and she tells al -Shark al -Ausat: “For 4 years we did not travel to the resort, for the last time she was in a huragade, thanks to my brother, who was in the brother, who was in the way, which was in the same time, who was in the same way. The order that was in tourism.

“My brother currently lives outside Egypt, and hotels are high that we cannot bear, especially since I have 3 children.”

The average price of the hotel night in the cities of Al -Ain Sukhna and Ras Sidr (East Cairo) is about 3 thousand pounds per person in a double room, with breakfast and dinner, as part of the “Middle East” was controlled through the places of reservation and corporate advertising, during the peak of summer of July (July) and August of the next. Two cities are classified as an average chip.

Thus, the ALAA family needs 15 thousand pounds for one night, unlike transport and campaigns: “It is clear that this summer will continue as its predecessors, and the resort remains an aggravated desire every year.” He indicated that “her husband works in the field of medical glasses in the Arabic country,” in exchange for providing for them at least a decent life, which “does not include luxury with a constant increase in prices.”

Several families are counting on trips organized by professional and trade unions, and summer camps, as a lower summer vacation at a market price. Nevertheless, this question was not helped by The Thirttyeth Amna Abdel -azim this year, and she works as a journalist, with high apartments declared by the press syndicate. Amna told ASHARQ Al -AWSAT: “Last year, my mother and my brother went on a journey followed by his work, which cost only 10 thousand pounds to spend a week in Mars Matrh, and in the first 2023 my mother and my brother and my brother traveled on a trip with journalists, an individual price in a full -time hotel amounted to 2700 pounds.”

She added that “this year the trip was presented in the same hotel by 6 thousand pounds per person”, which exceeds his power, noting that she was looking for through search sites and companies, and prices found 3 times more than in the previous year; Therefore, I decided to get by with the resort.

Three sources emphasized the importance of this trip for them; To be “updated energy”, given that the distribution with it is only part of a series of reduction of continuous luxury with rising prices.

The percentage of expenses of the Egyptians for “culture and entertainment” amounted to only 2.4 percent of the total expenses, according to the Central Agency of Public Mobilization and Statistics for 2019/2020, the financial year.

The professor of sociology themselves Hadr believes that “some families go to a resort with high prices, are practical exercises in the idea of ​​flexibility and adaptation,” they ask their parents to “teach their children this value through the situation.”

Hadr adds to Aucharka al -Vausat that “families usually resort to other alternatives, so that they do not deprive their children of entertainment if they cannot fulfill their ambitions to travel to coastal cities, whether with excursions in front of the Nile or others in a public park or even walking at night.” But ALAA believes that “even alternatives are not always available; I cannot move with 3 children at a close age in public transport, and any picnic now needs expenses for private cars, and the other, to satisfy the needs of children; Therefore, our way out to visit relatives is usually. ”

Economic researcher in the Egyptian initiative for personal rights Mohamed Ramadan said that entertainment events, including the resort, are controlled by the remaining budget of families after the expenses for the main provisions of the life of food, clothing, education, health, etc., which indicates that in exchange for increasing the costs of these elements from high prices, the forming of the entertainment hall in families in families and families and families and families Its forms change.

He added to Auchark al -Vausat that “families adapt to their changing budget; For example, you turn to a village in (the North Coast) less expensive than (Marassi) if it is used to hold a resort in it, or his face is completely changed to other coastal cities, which are less expensive, such as charm -elh or Alexandria, and therefore further.

Ramadan believed that “a decrease in the levels of expenses for entertainment in Egypt directly reflects a living crisis of many classes.”