French tourism recorded 96,000 tourist arrivals in 8 months, up 42% from 2016
By Akram Medhat
Minister of Tourism Yehia Rashed leaves Cairo today, Monday, for the French capital, Paris, to take part in the "Top Resa" tourism fair, scheduled to be held from September 26 to 28.
The importance of taking part in the fair stems from its being one of the most important professional fairs aimed at keeping pace with the rapid and successive changes in the international travel and tourism market. This year's fair brings together about 32,000 professionals specializing in the tourism sector, representing 158 countries from around the world.
Rashed will also attend the official opening of the fair in the presence of the French Secretary of State in charge of foreign trade and tourism, and is scheduled to hold a number of professional meetings with the vice president of the French travel agents' union, the secretary general of the union of tour and program operators, and the marketing director of "KARAVEL Group", in addition to media interviews with representatives of international news agencies.
Separately, the Minister of Tourism will meet this evening with Egypt's ambassador to France, Ehab Badawy, and Patrice Paoli, head of the French Foreign Ministry's Crisis and Support Center, to discuss the possibility of making some amendments to the map of Egypt included in the French Foreign Ministry's travel advice statement on Egypt, especially in light of what French tourist arrivals to the Egyptian destination are currently witnessing.
According to tourism statistics obtained exclusively by "Travel Yalla News", French tourist arrivals to Egypt reached about 96,000 in the first eight months of the current year, 2017, up 42% from the same period last year, and they spent about one million tourist nights, an increase of 157%.
