18 sad photos of how Egyptian resorts turn into ghost towns

The Arab Spring hit Egypt's travel industry very hard. Until 2011, the country of sand and pyramids was visited annually by 15 million people. The revolution helped reduce tourist flow by almost a third. Now Egypt annually began to visit only 11 million people, and this number is rapidly falling. The explosion of a passenger plane completely kills tourism in this country.

A man picks up trash in empty hotels.

Unfinished hotels just quit.

Shopping center Ile Mercato is already without buyers.

Many animals were abandoned, since they do not even pay for their own food. Now they themselves are looking for food.

Regular hotels that were abandoned in unfinished condition.

Caretakers at the entrance to the botanical garden.

Some golf courses are still being watched.

The guard still has work ... But for how long?

The complete lack of buyers.

The photo of the square was taken on November 8th.

Restaurants and cafes do not even collect a quarter of the halls.

No one needs taxi drivers.

Tourists in the squares are no longer met.

Beaches and pools are empty.

This does not mean that there are no tourists in the hotels of Egypt. They are, but the number of rooms is not filled by more than 22%. The ban on flights to Egypt is valid in Russia and the UK, but this was enough to completely bring down several sectors of the country's economy. So many tourist centers become ghost towns.