The number of tourists visiting Egypt in January dipped 46% Y-o-Y due to the ongoing decline in the number of Russian holidaymakers, state news agency MENA reported on Thursday, citing the official statistics body CAPMAS. The country was visited by 363,000 tourists, mostly from Western Europe (35.2%), followed by the Middle East (28.6%) and Eastern Europe (14.8%). The decline in tourism started late last year after a Russian plane was downed over Sinai in a terror attack in October last year, killing all 224 people on board. The number of nights spent by tourists in January fell 62.5% Y-o-Y to 2.6 million nights, down from 6.8 million in the same month last year. (Ahramonline)