Representatives from 250 Ukrainian travel companies met Red Sea governor Ahmed Abdallah and South Sinai governor Khaled Fouda to explore ways to attract one million Ukrainian tourists to Egypt in 2017. Tourism sources said that the meeting discussed stimulating and promoting Ukrainian tourism to increase the number of visitors to Egypt destinations and tourist cities. Abdallah said Ukraine is one of the major exporters of tourism to Egypt, especially to the Red Sea governorate. He explained that Ukraine comes second in number of tourists coming to Hurghada; and first in number of tourists visiting Sharm al-Sheikh. He said that the number of Ukrainian tourists rose from 364,000 tourists in 2015 to 425,000 tourists in 2016, an increase of about 20%.

Source: Egypt Independent February 18, 2017 09:08 UTC