When tourism was fledgling after the Egyptian crisis from 2011-2014 , the downing of an airplane which left Sharm El Sheikh airport with Russian tourists on 31 October 2015 , sent shock waves through the industry again . The cause was suspected to be a bomb and speculation largely fell on an airport worker . Russia stopped all flights to Sharm-El-Sheik , until Russian officials inspected the airport and felt it met better security standards . After the downing of the jet , " scared tourists " left the area , affecting the Bedouin population who worked in the tourism industry . Russian and Britain stopped all flights to Sharm El Sheikh . The drop in tourism was immense after the Russian tourists on the airplane were killed . Tourism income for Egypt dropped from $ 12 Billion in 2010 to almost half in 2016 . On 19 May 2016 , EgyptAir Flight 804 left Paris for Cairo with 66 people on board but crashed in the Mediterranean from unknown causes related to a fire
EgyptAir Flight 804
EgyptAir Flight 804
Terrorism and tourism in Egypt