In this audio, Professor Rachel Mairs discusses tourism to Egypt to complement the “Egypt in Reading” exhibition.

Part 1: Key features of tourism to Egypt

Professor Rachel Mairs discusses the history of tourism to Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Part 2: The Tourists

Professor Rachel Mairs discusses the kinds of people who went on to Egypt as tourists.

Rachel Mairs on Tourism_Transcript

See items relating to the history of tourism in Egypt in Britain in Egypt and Britain in Egypt Drawer.