Occupancy rate in Egypt's resort city of Sharm 75 pct. during Easter
13/04/2015 - 20:42 Aswat Masriya
http://www.egyptindependent.com//news/occupancy-rate-egypt-s-resort-city-sharm-75-pct-during-easter

The occupancy rate of Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh resort city reached 75 percent
during the current Easter holidays, a South Sinai official told the state
agency MENA on Monday.

Egypt is celebrating Easter today, two days after the Coptic Feast of
Resurrection.

Essam Khedr, head of South Sinai's crisis management administration, told
MENA that the Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport received on Monday 16
domestic and foreign tourists. He described the resort city's occupancy rate
as relatively high.

Other resort cities in the South Sinai governorate did not witness such a
high occupancy rate this season.

The occupancy rate of the city of Ras Sidr, which lies between Cairo and
Sharm, stood at 52 percent, while the cities of Taba and Nuweiba witnessed
an even smaller occupancy rate of 48 percent, Khedr told MENA.

Tourism was a main source of income in Egypt until a popular uprising which
toppled former President Hosni Mubarak's regime in 2011 triggered four years
of political turmoil, taking its toll on the sector.

Tourism revenues jumped to almost $4 billion from $1.9 billion during the
first half of the current fiscal year 2014/2015, the central bank announced
on March 19.