The number of tourists visiting Egypt in May 2014 reached 768,000, a drop of 20.7 percent compared to 969,000 in the same month last year, Egypt's official statistics agency CAPMAS said on Sunday.
Western Europe supplied Egypt with the most tourists, followed by Eastern Europe and the Middle East in last May, according to CAPMAS’s statement.
The statement indicated that the number of nights visiting tourists spent in Egypt decreased by 17 percent in May 2014, falling from 8.8 million nights in May 2013 to 7.3 million.
Arab countries saw the largest decline, falling 22.1 percent to record 1.5 million a night in May 2014 compared to 1.9 million in May 2013.
On average, CAPMAS reported, tourists in May 2014 spent 9.4 nights in Egypt, compared to 9.3 in the same month last year and 9.7 in May 2010.
