An official report revealed that 827.347 tourists visited Egypt during March, with an increase of 26 percent over March 2004. A total of 6.8 million nights were spent by tourists in Egypt while $724 million was spent.

    The report, issued by the Internal Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, showed that most tourists came from Southern and Western Europe, followed by Eastern Europe, then the Middle East, North America and Africa.

    Focusing solely on Arab tourists, 116.000 visited Egypt with an increase of 19 percent.

    About 1.1 million nights were spent in Egypt. Most tourists came from Libya, followed by Saudi Arabia, Palestine and then Jordan.