Egypt’s loss is 45% and about 1000 ambassadors to promote Luxor

At the Rotary Clubs District 2450 Conference which is being held in Luxor (28^th – 1^st May 2011), Mr. Mounir Fakhry Abd El Nour (Minister of Tourism) said that tourists numbers in Egypt dropped by 45 % in first quarter of 2011, because of the latest events since 25^th January, in comparison with the same period of 2010. Luxor’s new governor, General. Khaled Fouda said that he asks every person was attending tonight’s event from 10 different countries beside Egypt to be Ambassadors and tell their friends, families and everyone they know to come to Luxor as it is safe and welcome you.

 

 

Numbers and facts on visitors to Egypt for the last week

Some facts and figures on the number of visitors and tourists in Egypt for the last week (31^st January till 5^th February)

 Cairo airport: 14000 passengers flew in and 57000 flew out. Hurghada airport: 3900 flew in and 62000 flew out. Hotels Occupancy (average) in Sharm El Shiekh 2% and in Luxor 4%.
Also the number of foreigners left Egypt in 10 days time from 28th Jan. is about 1 million costing the Egyptian economy over 1 billion dollar loss.