As a lecturer for the University of Chicago Oriental Institute museum education program, I always stress that Egypt is in Africa. On July 20 you published a list of Africa’s top 10 destinations, according to the World Tourism Organization. And Egypt wasn’t one of them. Do more people really go to Reunion ( 10) than Egypt?
No. But for statistical purposes, the WTO includes Egypt (and Libya) in a separate region, the Middle East, which also includes the Asian countries of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Arab Gulf States–but not Israel (which the WTO includes in Europe). If Egypt were included in the figures for Africa, it would rank No. 3 with 3,675,000 arrivals in 1996, right between Tunisia (3,885,000) and Morocco (2,693,000).
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