According to Blue Sky, Egypt was expecting 100,000 tourists via Thomas Cook in 2020. But the first travel company in the world has just collapsed. The Egyptian tourist industry is dominated by those corrupt pro-regime tycoons. The main loosers though will be Egyptian workers. Thomas Cook workers at least have a welfare state to rely on.
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51