“Egypt is expecting more Chinese visitors in the upcoming seasons,” Egyptian Tourism Minister Rania El-Mashat said. “We had a leap in tourism in 2017 and a large boom in 2018, when Egypt was visited by renowned foreign figures,” she elaborated in an interview with the Chinese news agency Xinhua in Minya province.
The tourism sector has been suffering recession in Egypt over the past few years but for the first time during October 2018, Chinese Sichuan Airlines launched a direct flight to Cairo airport. The recent launch of the new Sphinx International Airport, which is about 12 km away from the Great Pyramids of Giza, will link tourist destinations from the northern and southern sides of the the country through domestic flights.
