"Tourism in Egypt is witnessing remarkable boom with an increase of number of tourists by 13 percent in the year 2006/2007 compared to the past year," said Minister of Tourism Zohair Garana on Monday in his speech to the first session of the second day of a forum of Egyptian expatriates.

Garana noted that around 9.7 million tourists visited Egypt during the said period compared to 8.6 million in 2005/2006.

"Also, tourist nights increased to reach 92.3 million at total revenues of $ 8.2 billion in the said period compared to 85.1 million nights at revenue of $ 7.2 billion in the past year," he added.