The number of tourists visiting Egypt in July dropped by 41.9 percent, compared to the same month last year, according to the latest numbers from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). The most significant countries that influenced the rate of decline are Russia at 60 percent, followed by the United Kingdom at 17.5 percent, Germany at 10.4 percent and Poland at 3.8 percent, Al Shorouk newspaper reported, quoting an announcement by CAPMAS. According to CAPMAS’s monthly bulletin assessing tourism, the highest number of tourists in July came from Middle Eastern countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, which dispatched 40.5 percent of tourists arriving in Egypt. In second place came Western Europe, led by Germany with 26.2 percent, followed by Eastern European. Meanwhile, the rate of arrivals from the Americas, Africa, East Asia and the Pacific and South Asia, and other countries recorded 21.3 percent. The bulletin further pointed out that the number of tourists arriving from Arab countries increased by 28.1 percent year-on-year, amounting to 233.5 thousand tourists during the past month, compared to 182.2 thousand tourists during the same period last year, thus comprising 44.1 percent of the…
Tourist Arrivals to Egypt Drop by 41.9% in July, While Number of Arab Tourists Increases: CAPMAS
August 29, 2016
