CAIRO - The number of tourists visiting Egypt fell 32.4 percent in March compared with the same month last year, state media said on Tuesday, as a vital source of foreign currency continues to dry up after years of political turmoil.
Around 755,000 tourists visited Egypt in March, state-news agency MENA quoted official statistics agency CAPMAS as saying, compared with more than a million in March 2013.
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Egypt's revenue from tourism tumbled 41 percent last year to $5.9 billion. Hundreds were killed in the violence that followed the army's overthrow of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in July.
The tourism ministry this month launched a three-year marketing campaign in the hope of attracting tourists and investors to the country.
