Egypt’s Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou expected the tourism industry to fully recover by early 2015, citing improved hotel occupancy rates during the third quarter of this year following three years of political and security instability.
Zaazou is mounting public relations campaigns, inviting foreign officials to visit and assess Egypt's stability for themselves and boosting security at airports and hotels, according to Reuters.
"Once you don't have the perception that your security and safety is guaranteed these countries will put out a negative travel advice. And that's closing the door for the client," said Zaazou in an interview for the Reuters Middle East Investment Summit.
"I went around to the source markets and asked these governments, particularly at the ministries of foreign affairs, to send technical delegations to Egypt to check our measures in that respect and write us a report."
Zaazou expects tourism revenues to cross $7 billion by the end of this year.
"At the end of the winter season which is April 2015, not the end of 2015, we should record good numbers of the come-back and the full revival of the tourism industry," he said.
Once peaking at $12.5 billion (£7.7 billion) a year, tourism revenues were less than half that in 2013 at $5.9 billion as upheaval in the run up to the army's ouster of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi put off foreign visitors.