Already grappling with protests over its economic instability and security issues, Egypt has seen a 41% drop in in-coming tourists, following the crashed North African passenger plane. Tourism wasn’t that weak even in November and December 2013, when deadly confrontations between security forces and Islamist supporters were a near-daily occurrence. Only around about 400,000 million tourists visited Egypt in 2005 and December marking the lowest number since 2005 , leaving the popular destination of Sharm El-Sheikh like a ghost town and the impact from the drop in tourism revenue is complicating efforts to rally the economy. As we have previously noted, holidays that underpinned North African economies are being impacted significantly as tourists shun resorts from Tunisia to Sharm El-Sheikh in the wake of terrorist attacks. Tunisia 's tourism minister, Salma Lummi , warns that the country's tourism industry, which employs one people, has reached a crisis point and its collapse risks fuelling a vicious circle of extremism, adding that " one of the sources of terrorism is lack of hope".
Already grappling with protests over its economic instability and security issues, Egypt has seen a 41% drop in in-coming tourists, following the crashed North African passenger plane. Only around about 400,000 million tourists visited Egypt in 2005 and December marking the lowest number since 2005 , leaving the popular destination of Sharm El-Sheikh like a ghost town and the impact from the drop in tourism revenue is complicating efforts to rally the economy. As we have previously noted, holidays that underpinned North African economies are being impacted significantly as tourists shun resorts from Tunisia to Sharm El-Sheikh in the wake of terrorist attacks. Tunisia 's tourism minister, Salma Lummi , warns that the country's tourism industry, which employs one people, has reached a crisis point and its collapse risks fuelling a vicious circle of extremism, adding that " one of the sources of terrorism is lack of hope".