#tourist arrivals
The number of tourists visiting Egypt in May dropped by 51.7 percent in comparison to the same month last year, according to the latest numbers from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). While 894,600 tourists had visited Egypt in May 2015, that number dropped to less than half during the same month one year later, reaching 431,800. The number of Russian tourists, who had once comprised the biggest bulk of Egypt's tourist arrivals, dropped by 61.3 percent year-on-year. The tourism…