ArabFinance: Egypts Tourism Ministry will launch a new three-year international tourism promotion campaign this fall, according to the ministrys statement on June 1st.

Launching the new campaign comes in line with the ministrys efforts to drum up post-covid business.

In May, Tourism Minister Khaled El Anany said that tourism revenues are expected to reach between $6 billion and $9 billion in 2021 due to the rise in arrivals from Eastern European and Gulf tourists.

With visitors numbers having risen to about 500,000 a month, Egypt is hoping for a total of more than 6 million tourists this year.

Earlier in May, the minister announced that Egypts tourism sector is expected to see recovery by mid-2022.

In April, Deputy Tourism Minister Ghada Shalaby said that Egypt expects to see tourism revenues between $6 billion to $7 billion in 2021 with tourist arrivals recovering to 60% of 2019 levels.

On April 25th, Spokesman of the Egyptian Presidency Bassam Rady announced that both Egypt and Russia have agreed to resume all flights between the two countries.

As many as 1 million Russian tourists could visit Egypt in 2021.

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