Just under a year ago, Vladimir Putin quipped about the resilience of his people noting that Russian tourists continued to head for Egypt even as revolutionary turmoil gripped the country and other foreign nationals fled.
Putin understands how to talk his people up. However, do the numbers bear him out? And how is Egyptian tourism faring?
It has been almost non-stop political turbulence for Egypt since the revoltion which ousted Hosni Mubarak as president last year. Throughout, however, Russian tourists have continued to visit. Figures published this week show that 1.8m Russians came to Egypt in 2011, making them the country’s top visitors followed by the British and the Germans.
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