Tourism volume dropped by 38 percent in November

The number of tourists who had visited Egypt in November 2015 dropped by 37.8 percent compared with the same period in 2014, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).Egypt’s official statistical agency published its monthly report for tourism statistics on Tuesday, indicating that 558,600 tourists had arrived in the country in November last year compared with 898,200 during the same month in 2014.

According to the report, 40 percent of tourists were Western Europeans followed by Eastern Europeans who made up 28.5 percent of those that visited the country.

Russian tourists accounted for 47 percent of East European tourists, while Saudi Arabia topped the list of Middle Eastern holidaymakers visited Egypt during the period under review, according to the report.