Egypt
Current State of Tourism in Egypt
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“Egypt’s Central Bank said Tuesday the number of tourists who visited Egypt in March increased by 26 percent compared to the same period last year. The bank said in a statement 827,000 tourists visited in March, compared with 656,000 last year. The statement did not identify the nationalities of the tourists or reveal the amount of money they spent.However, the number of tourists is expected to decrease after three foreigners were killed in bombing attacks that targeted tourist areas in Cairo in April. Tourism is a main source of foreign currency in addition to remittances by Egyptian expatriates, oil sales and tolls from the Suez Canal. Tourism revenue was calculated at $6.5 billion in 2004″.
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Tourism: Rise In Swiss Tourists Visiting Egypt
Egypt State Information Service Egypt's Tourism Minister Zuhair Garana said the number of Swiss tourists visiting Egypt increased during the last five years. In 2006, some 120,000 Swiss tourists visited Egypt, Garana said in a speech at the inaugural...
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One Million Tourists Visited Egypt Last April
Egyptian State Information Service Close to 1.31 million tourists from all over the world visited Egypt last April, up by 12% compared to the same month a year earlier," said chairman of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics Abu-Bakr...
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Tourism In Egypt 2006
http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=22195"The Chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Authority, Ahmed El Khadem, and the Tourism Advisor for Egypt in Spain, Magued Abousedera, presented the tourism results that the country achieved during the...
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Tourism In Egypt
http://tinyurl.com/ndyqc (northafrica.andnetwork.com) "Along with the Suez Canal and oil and gas revenues, tourism is one of Egypt’s main sources of foreign currency and, as the number of tourists increase every year, so does the importance of the money...
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Assessment Of Attacks On Cairo Tourism
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/741/eg1.htm "Will last week's terror attacks near two of Egypt's most popular tourist attractions, the Egyptian Museum and the Citadel, have an effect on the nation's most vital industry? The attacks, which...
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