The geographic position of Egypt, its natural assets and its old civilization constitute the formation of tourist activity scopes which drained conjugated efforts of the state and the public. In 2005 the number of visitors is estimated at 8.7 millions.

Tourism Sector Indicators
Source: Ministry of  Tourism

Indicator	1991/1992	2004/2005
Number of hotels, tourist villages and floating hotels (hotel & village)	663*	1207**
Number of rooms in hotels, tourist villages and floating hotels (thousand)	54.7	136.5
Number of tourists (million)	3	8.7
Number of tourist nights (million)	20.2	85.7

       * 1992   ** until Dec.2004   *** until Dec.2003 

The main tourist sites in Egypt are:

• Cairo: capital and city of more than 15 million inhabitants, city of the "thousand minarets", Cairo is also an open sky museum, in the middle of the West and Africa.
• Alexandria: long ago the city sheltered a gigantic library of 500,000 volumes; at its apogee, it used to be a big centre of scientific, philosophic and intellectual erudition. Few things remain of this glorious past, but Midan Ramla's district keeps signs of Alexandria's cosmopolitan history of the beginning of XXth century: Cecil Hotel, the Swiss Pharmacy, Athenios tearoom.
• Luxor: has a magnificent monumental -and amazingly preserved- architecture: you will be able to admire it from a felucca by letting you slide along the Nile.
• Aswan: modern city which extends over the magnificent eastern bank of the Nile: you will be able to contemplate it from the Ledge, a magnificent avenue on the river shore.
• Sinai: is a region of incredible beauty. Under the Pharaohs, quarries contained large quantities of turquoise, gold and copper.