"More than 500,000 Chinese visited the Egyptian exhibition of photography that was held here on September 5-25," said Egypt's tourism counsellor to China Naser Abdel-Aal on Tuesday26/9/2006.

The exhibition was held among activities marking the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Egyptian-Chinese relations, he said.

He added that the exhibition included attractive photos taken by Chinese photographers during their visits to Egypt over the past years.

He hoped the exhibition would help lure more Chinese tourists to Egypt.

Around 30,000 Chinese tourists visited Egypt during the period from January to July of 2006, according to official tourism statistics.