On Sunday, Thomas Cook announced that it will be bringing around 500,000 tourists to Egypt this year from various countries. Moudy Shaer, Blue Sky Travel’s chairman, announced that the company has experienced a 50% raise in tourists in the first half of 2018, where Marsa Alam and Hurghada exhibited the largest hike in bookings. There has also been an increase in the number of tourists coming from Germany to Sharm El-Sheikh, further demonstrating the ameliorating state of tourism. Three months ago, it was reported that Egypt’s tourism was expected to soar in 2018, according to Egypt Independent, as the number of tourists from Great Britain was to increase. The Egyptian tourism suffered a heavy blow after the 2011 revolution, resulting in a sharp decline in the number of tourists by a total of 62% between 2011 and 2014, as some governments as well as travel agencies were concerned with the security situation in Egypt. Tourism is a very important source for hard currency and employment for many Egyptians living in Sinai and other touristic destinations. In 2015, a bomb has exploded on a Russian flight taking off from Sharm El…
