Egypt tourism revenue drops by 24.7 pct

Tourism has been hammered since the popular uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. It suffered another blow in February when a coach carrying Korean tourists was bombed by Islamist extremists.

The bus carrying Korean tourists was bombed near Taba in southern Sinai, not far from an Israel border crossing often used by vacationers, killing two South Koreans and one Egyptian in February.