took this from an egyptian daily paper


The number of Americans traveling to Egypt in 2006 soared to 228,165, a 16% increase over 195,800 visitors in 2005. Globally, Egypt succeeded in attracting 9,082,000 visitors in 2006, a 5.5% increase over the 8.7 million visitors of the previous year. These are strong results given that the global growth rate for tourism worldwide is 4.5%, according to the World Trade Organization.


In country by country rankings, the USA finished 6th in terms of number of visitors, making it the highest ranked non-European country. Topping the chart was England, which broke the one million mark with 1,033,000 visitors. Russia held its second-place spot for the second year in a row, with 998,000 visitors to Egypt in 2006. At third place is Germany with 966,000 visitors, a slight 1.4% decrease from last year when it held the top spot. Italy ranked fourth, the same as last year, with 786,000. Others ranked in the top ten include France, with 372,000.

He noted that tourist nights soared to 89.3 million versus 85.1 million in 2005, representing a 4.9% increase. The average stay lengthened slightly to 8.3 nights from 8.2 nights in 2005. Tourist revenues, meanwhile, amounted to $7.6 billion for the year, an increase of 11.8% over 2005.


Egypt offers many attractions for vacationers to enjoy, from its famous historical sights to spectacular beaches and coral reefs, as well as a wealth of numerous other activities, including golf, ecotourism, shopping and wellness breaks. Given its 360 days of sunshine per year, Egypt is a natural choice for exceptional vacations.

I was surprised to see Sharm busy with tourists in February, the weather was great most of the time, the nationality of tourists to be pretty mixed.

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Have been to Sharm several times in january, weather has always bee hot and sunny and always seemed to be a lot of europeans about, especially Italians, but never really noticed many Americans

Sharon

When I travel abroad, I don't exactly advertise I'm American...I usually say I'm Canadian, lol. On several occasions, after saying I was another nationality, the native person proceeded to rant about the US and how people from there are jerks. I prefer to avoid that, hehe.

Good for Egypt ..those stats are rather surprising considering most Americans are very leary of most locations in the Middle East or nearby. I have British friends who holiday in Egypt and Jordan but I haven't considered a trip since the War in Iraq began.

I can say that I am American and this is at the top of my list of places to visit. I will say that with everything going on I am a little leery on traveling right now and I can understand why some people would not really want to announce that they are American. But I think it is more the American government than the actual people in America that other countries are not happy with right now.

Sometimes I think this is just the way the world will be from now on ...and that we should just keep going and doing the way we want to. Manhattan taught me that.

I think it's very good for Egypt also. Very excellent. Thanks for the very cool information.

The one lady I know personally who's been to Egypt is a Polish-Canadian, who enjoyed it very much.

I was a little surprised when I saw her photos at how much some of the areas appeared similar to a Caribbean destination vacation.