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Agency executive Mohamed Yehia Rashed, Minister | ||
The Ministry of Tourism of Egypt is part of the Cabinet of Egypt and is responsible for tourism in Egypt. On 23 March 2016, Mohamed Yehia Rashed was named Tourism Minister.
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Tourism is one of the most important sectors in Egypt's economy. More than 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008, providing revenues of nearly $11 billion. In 2009, the sector employed about 12 percent of Egypt's workforce.
In 2016, the minister of tourism expressed his concern and optimism about tourists returning to Egypt despite the downing of a Russian flight in 2015. The minister has said "we are all in this together" referring to terrorism that hurts a country's tourism industry.
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Ministry of Tourism (Egypt) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA