Tourism sector revenue reached $5.1 billion in 9 months
Tourism sector revenue last September recorded a sharp decline of 27.8%, reaching about $510.3 million, compared with $706 million in the same month last year, while average daily tourist spending for September was $73.5.
According to the latest tourism statistics report, published exclusively by Travel Yalla, total tourism revenue in the first nine months of 2015 reached $5.1 billion, with average daily tourist spending of $73.3 according to the Central Bank of Egypt report, compared with $5.2 billion in the same period of 2014.
As for the third quarter of this year, it recorded tourism revenue of $1.7 billion from July to September 2015, compared with about $2 billion in the second quarter, while the first quarter of this year was the lowest in revenue at $1.4 billion.
It is worth noting that the decline in tourism sector revenue was a natural result of the drop in tourist numbers in September, which reached about 802,000 tourists, a decline of 9.3% compared with the same month of 2014.
