17.7 billion is the income traget for year 2001 Egyptian tourism

The new five-year plan for the Egyptian tourism development organization (98-2002) expected that Egyptian tourism will result in an income of 17.7 billion pounds by the end of the year of 2001.

This will be accomplished by increasing tourist capacities by 10 percent, and the expenditure spent by these tourists, along with longer visiting periods (current average is 7.1 nights) achieved by more competitive pricing and better service. Also, there will be greater focus on the Arab region as a source for tourism.

The plan aims at increasing tourists numbers to 4 millions as well as raising the tourists night to 27.1 million nights in the first year with an increase of 2.3 million nights more than the current number of 24.8 million tourist nights.