{"id":57304,"date":"2017-05-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/egypt-tourist-arrivals-up-nearly-50-in-march\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:26:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:26:22","slug":"egypt-tourist-arrivals-up-nearly-50-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypt-tourist-arrivals-up-nearly-50-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt tourist arrivals up nearly 50% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Egypt welcomed 659,900 foreign tourists in March, up 48.6% from March 2016, according to the latest figures released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). <\/p>\n<p>Tourist increased the most from Western Europe, at 31.9%, with Germany being the single country with the biggest increase, at 43.9%. Tourist influx from the Middle East was up 24.6%, with Saudi Arabian arrivals going up 37.6%. <\/p>\n<p>Eastern Europe came in third at 21.6%, with Ukrainian arrivals increasing by 56.3%. Egypt welcomed 197,900 tourists from Arab countries, up 39.9% from March 2016. <\/p>\n<p>The online version of Egyptian news daily <em>Al-Ahram <\/em>reported that foreign traveler numbers in Egypt were up 51% year-on-year to approximately 1.7 million, with tourist revenue reaching USD 1.6 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Egypt&rsquo;s tourism industry was slumping since a Russian passenger plane crashed on the Sinai in 2015, but a rebound began early this year. Still, no information is available yet regarding the impact of the terror attacks against Coptic Christians that took place in April and last week. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-191869\">Alexandre Rocha\/ANBA 12.10.2009<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roughly 660,000 foreign travelers visited the country in the month as per the latest figures released by the Egyptian state-run statistics agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":191869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tourism"},"wps_subtitle":"Roughly 660,000 foreign travelers visited the country in the month as per the latest figures released by the Egyptian state-run statistics agency.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}