Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has released a report showing a decline in number of incoming tourists to Egypt during the first half of 2014 by 25.4 percent.
The number reached 4.4 million tourists, compared to 5.9 million tourists during the first half of 2013.
In a statement on the World Tourism Day, CAPMAS said that number of inbound tourists reached 5.9 million tourists in 2013, compared to 11.5 million tourists in 2012, marking 17.4 percent decrease.
The number of Arab incoming tourists declined in 2013 by 21.7 percent reaching 1.8 million tourists, compared to 2.3 million tourists in 2012.
The number of nights spent by tourists during the first half of 2014 reached 43.6 million nights, compared to 65.2 million nights during first half of 2013, marking a 33-percent decline.
The highest number of tourists came from eastern Europe during first half of 2014 by 1.9 million (45.1 percent), followed by Western Europe then Arab countries.
The main tourist-sending countries came from Russia, then United Kingdom, Germany, Ukraine, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Libya then Palestine.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
