Tourism crisis Sharm El-Sheikh, "the Egyptian government haunt

The Egyptian government cooperation on domestic tourism during the holiday half of the school year to bring life back to the tourist resorts and shrines experiencing a recession since the fall of the Russian plane crash over the Sinai last October, and the suspension of Russian and British tours to two resorts famous Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada.

And announced that Egypt Tourism Company, the government tourism marketing arm, in cooperation with the Jordan Tourism Board, for promotional programs for Egyptian families to spend the holiday half of the school year in each of the Sharm el-Sheikh, Hurghada, Luxor, Aswan, is that the abolition of government support for programs of tourism to the Egyptians during the holiday half of the school year, perhaps Many Egyptian does not encourage families to spend their vacations in these locations where hotel occupancy rates have fallen to 20-30%, as workers in hotels.

Following the suspension of Russian and British tourist trips to each of the Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, Egyptian Ministry of Tourism announced initiatives to counter the expected decline in tourist influx to the country, including the carrying amount of 500 pounds of the cost of tourism programs for each individual, is vacationing in Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, however, that the Sami Mahmoud, head of the Tourism Promotion Authority, said: "The abolition of subsidized trips during the mid-year holidays, due to the high occupancy rates in most hotels during that period", according to the newspaper reported, "Union."

And damaged resorts of Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada from the decline of Russian and British tourism, which accounts for about 70% of tourist traffic to the two resorts, it estimated the Ministry of Tourism size of the losses of the comments coming from the two tours of about 2.2 billion pounds per month, and about 6.6 billion pounds in the three months since stop these flights last November.

Three days ago, it announced the Ministry of Tourism tourism revenues for the country declined in 2015 by 18% to reach $ 6.1 billion, compared with $ 7.5 billion in 2014, as the number of tourists decreased by 6% over the past year, reaching 9.5 million tourists compared with about 10 million tourists in 2014.