Some 7.5 million tourists visited Egypt from January to November…
Some 7.5 million tourists visited Egypt from January to November and the number may exceed 8 million by the end of December, the official MENA news agency reported Thursday.
Chairman of the Egyptian Tourism Authority Ahmad Khadem was quoted as saying Italian tourists led the list with 967,000 coming to Egypt so far this year and Germans followed with 927,000.
The number of Russian tourists visiting Egypt reached 635,000, British, 494,000 and French, 429,000, Khadem added.
Tourism, one of the country`s major sources of state revenues, brings some 6 billion US dollars to Egypt annually. It also provides millions of jobs, either directly or indirectly.
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