Visitor numbers still not at 2010 levels The Egyptian Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics announced Wednesday that the number of international tourists increased by 30.8 percent

Numbering 1.05 million visitors during April 2012, compared to 800,000 tourists during the same month in 2011. This increase was due to a decline recorded in April of 2011 because of the events of the January 25 revolution. Despite the significant increase, it did not reach the level of April 2010 which recorded 1.2 million tourists.
The agency mentioned, in its monthly tourism bulletin for April 2012, that Western European tourists rated first, followed by Eastern Europeans during that period.
The agency showed that the number of Arab tourists increased by 19. percent, numbering at 175,000 during April 2012, compared to 147,000 tourists during the same month of 2011, while in 2010, April recorded 150,000 visitors.
The number of nights which departing tourists from Arab countries spent was 2.5 million during April 2012, compared to 1.4 million nights during the same month of 2011, an increase of 82.9 percent and 1.7 million nights, during the same month in 2010.
Western Europe ranked first in number of nights spent, followed by Eastern Europe then the Middle East during the same period.