CAPMAS: Egyptian tourism increases significantly

CAIRO – 24 September 2017: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics has reported a distinguished increase in the number of tourists who visited Egypt during August, as the number spiked to 819,600 tourists compared to 503,000 during the same month last year. The number is also considerably higher than the number of tourists who visited Egypt in July 2017 which was 781,200 tourists.

The agency added in its September report that the number of booked nights this August has increased in comparison to the same month last year. In August tourists booked 10.864 million nights in comparison to 3.488 million nights in August 2016.

The report also mentioned that the number of booked nights per month has increased as it reached 10.864 million nights in August compared to 7.74 million nights in July. As for the occupancy rate of hotels per month it has also increased remarkably reaching 45.2 percent in April compared to 37.8 percent in March and 20 percent in April 2016.



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