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Egypt Travel and Sightseeing

Rahim Tabet | Februari 11, 2016 |
Basic Information
   Official language: Arabic
   Capital: Cairo
   Surface: 1,001,450 km²
   Population: 82,079,636 (July 2011)
   Currency:  Egyptian pound (EGP)
   Time difference: +1 (Summer +2)
   web | code | Tel: . .eg | EGY | +20
Egypt Travel and Sightseeing
The national carrier Egypt Air operates domestic and international flights. Cairo and Alexandria have an international airport, Egypt has a total of eighteen airports. Per year are processed approximately 12 million passengers, of which about 8 million from abroad. Until 2007 there were built in Egypt seven new airports, an investment of 900 million euros. The private sector plays a major role, as in the modernization of another 16 airports. Many tourists take advantage of last minute flights to Egypt.

In the second half of the seventies, tourism rebounded strongly with aid from the setbacks caused by the war with Israel. The Gulf crisis and attacks by Muslim fundamentalists sector did no good. Thus, the occupancy rate of hotels in the aftermath of the attacks in America around 30%. already risen to 60% in the first quarter of 2002 the figure was.
Egypt Sharm el Sheikh
All these events were once again clear that tourism remains a very vulnerable sector of the economy.
In 2002, more than 52 million tourists visited Egypt. Tourism (one of the few growth sectors of the economy) focuses on the great monuments of Egyptian civilization and increasingly on the Red Sea coast. Major cities are Sharm el Sheikh and Makadi Bay Tourists come mainly from the United States, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and France.

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