El-Beltagi expects 16 million tourists in 2017

Egyptian Minister of Tourism Mamdouh El-Beltagi expected that by the year 2017 the number of projected tourists to Egypt will reach 16 million and the number of tourist nights will increase to 13 million due to a raise in the average tourists' stay from 6.5 nights to 8 nights each.

He also stated that his ministry is continuing to enhance its efforts to expand the tourism sector in Egypt, in addition to enhancing the training program for new workers, as new tourists projects will need more than half a million workers through 2017.

This was stated in a meeting of the Egyptian businessmen assembly's members, who called on the government to continue the improvement of security measures to better protect tourist groups from terrorist activities.