Rashed: Egyptian tourism overcame its crises

CAIRO - 20 December 2017: Minister of Tourism Yahia Rashed said on Wednesday that Egyptian tourism has overcome its crises and all its difficulties.

In an interview with MENA, he added that tourism in 2018 will achieve more progress and development with a view to restoring its previous rates and its real status on the global tourism market.

The route of the Holy Family and the return of Russian tourism in February along with other markets that lifted their travel ban to Egypt will help achieve remarkable boom in Egyptian tourism, he added.

He underlined that the security situation in Egypt is stable and that all required measures were adopted to secure tourists.

He noted that Europe includes several promising tourist markets such as the Polish and Ukrainian markets.