السبت، 28 أبريل 2012

The importance of tourism to Egypt and for the Egyptians

Tourism 
is the most important source of national income in egypt. The Egyptian people are used to the presence of tourists in their midst since antiquity.
More than 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008, providing revenues of nearly $11 billion. 
The sector employs about 12 percent of Egypt's workforce
.In 2000, there were about 5.5 million foreign tourist arrivals, with over 3.8 million from Europe, and receipts totaled more than $4.3 billion. In that year there were 113,611 rooms in hotels and 227,222 beds with a 73% occupancy rate.
 In 2002, the US government estimated the average daily cost of staying in Cairo to be about $167, around the same as other major cities in Egypt.

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