Luxor International Airport received 4 charter flights from Germany carrying 650 tourists on Thursday. Luxor Airport station manager Ahmed Abdellatif said the first flight was coming from Munich airport, carrying 130 tourists. Luxor was announced the capital of Arab culture for the year 2017, in a big celebration, attended by the Arab Ministers of Culture. The Luxor Festival of African Cinema was recently held there as well, with the participation of hundreds of African and Egyptian artists. The tourism lull was exacerbated by the downing of the Russian plane in October 2015, which killed all 224 passengers and crew on board, most of them Russian tourists.

Source: Egypt Independent March 24, 2017 12:22 UTC