Egypt Received 826,000 Tourists in October, Up 63%, Making It the Best Month of 2017

6.7 million tourists visited Egypt in the past 10 months, up 55% from 2016

By Akram Medhat

Statistics on inbound tourism to Egypt revealed continued positive growth in arrival rates in October, which recorded 826,000 tourists, up 63% from the same month of 2016, who spent 8.1 million tourist nights, an increase of 146%, while the average length of stay in Egypt reached about 11 nights (10.6 nights).

October began to come relatively close to the same month of 2015, which recorded 909,000 tourists, before the Russian plane crash that made 2016 a year of tourism stagnation, but it surpassed it in the number of nights spent by tourists, which then stood at 7.1 million tourist nights.

Total for the Ten Months of 2017

Tourism statistics obtained exclusively by Travel Yalla News showed that the total number of tourist arrivals from the beginning of 2017 to the end of October reached 6.7 million tourists, up 55% from the same period of 2016.

Tourist nights reached about 68 million between January and October, an increase of 162% over the same period of 2016, which recorded 26 million nights, approaching the levels of 2015, before the Russian plane crisis, when they stood at 77 million nights.

October is the best month so far this year, recording the highest arrival rate at 826,000 tourists, and it even leads traffic since November 2015, surpassing August, which recorded 820,000 tourists and is now in second place so far.

A table showing the monthly development of inbound tourism in 2017:

Geographic Breakdown of Tourists

European tourism achieved the highest rise in tourist arrivals compared with other markets in October, at 89% over the same period of 2016, recording 525,000 tourists, representing 64% of total inbound tourist traffic to Egypt.

A table showing the geographic breakdown of inbound tourism to Egypt in October 2017 compared with the same month last year: