Egypt registers 46.3% decrease of tourist numbers in January

A total of 363,500 tourists visited Egypt from around the world in January 2016, a registered decrease of 46.3%, according to a press release by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS)
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“This decline is due to the decline of Russian tourists [visiting Egypt],” CAPMAS stated.

According to the report, Western Europe recorded from its data a total decline of 35.2% among tourists in January 2016, including Germany with a decline of 41.2% and Middle Eastern countries with a decline of 28.6 %.

A total of 414,100 departing tourists were recorded in January 2016, a decrease of 44.1%, and departing tourists in total spent 2.6 million nights in Egypt, a decrease by 62.5% from the previous year.

“This is because to the 99.0% decline of tourist nights of Russians,” CAPMAS noted.

Western Europe registered the largest share of nights with 39.2%, from which Germany registered the number of tourist nights at 44.2% from the total number of nights, followed by Middle East with 33.3%.

Saudi Arabia was the largest country regarding the number of tourist nights in Egypt with 35.1% from the total number of nights for the Middle East.