{"id":4012,"date":"2015-11-09T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tourism.plus4d.com\/2015\/11\/09\/egypt-launches-arabic-booking-portal\/"},"modified":"2015-11-09T16:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:13:33","slug":"egypt-launches-arabic-booking-portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/?p=4012","title":{"rendered":"Egypt launches Arabic booking portal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Travelstart in Egypt recently announced launch of its Arabic language travel services portal.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cOur vision has always been to introduce online services in Arabic, making it easier for Egyptians to book and purchase travel services,\u201d said Ahmed Saadeddine, country manager of Travelstart Egypt. \u201cTravelstart focuses on tech-savvy, adventurous customers that demand online tools has proved very successful for us with almost 300% increase in sales over the past year. We hope that introduction of our Arabic services will boost sales further.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With nearly 45 million Internet users in Egypt, Travelstart\u2019s Arabic\/English website is positioned to capitalize on future growth. According to PayFort, Egypt\u2019s online ticket purchases in Egypt are expected to grow from US$1.9 billion in 2014 to US$2.8 billion by 2020.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif; font-size: 0.938em; line-height: 1.5; padding-left: 1.25em; padding-right: 1.25em; color: #222222;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">With 2014 sales totalling over 30 million Egyptian Pounds, ticket purchases increasing by 263% and unique website visitors surpassing 1.2 m, Travelstart Egypt has demonstrated that Egyptian customers respond very positively to innovative online services.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Travelstart in Egypt recently announced launch of its Arabic language travel services portal. \u201cOur vision has always been to introduce online services in Arabic, making it easier for Egyptians to book and purchase travel services,\u201d said Ahmed Saadeddine, country manager of Travelstart Egypt. \u201cTravelstart focuses on tech-savvy, adventurous customers that demand online tools has proved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category----tourism-arab-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tourismworld-seyaha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}