Tourists visited Egypt hit 4.9 million in 1st half of 2022

CAIRO, Sept. 27 (Xinhua) -- Some 4.9 million tourists visited Egypt in the first six months of 2022, with an increase of 85.4 percent compared to 2.6 million tourists in the same period of 2021, Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) announced on Tuesday.

Marking World Tourism Day, CAPMAS said that "eight million tourists visited Egypt in 2021, a 117.5-percent increase compared to 3.7 million tourists in 2020."