After three years of declining tourism numbers and political turbulence, Egypt plans to boost security at numerous hotels and popular tourist destinations in an attempt to reassure tourists and lure them back to the country.

“Rebooting Egypt’s tourism industry, long a crucial source of revenue, could inject badly needed foreign currency into the country’s struggling economy. But convincing tourists in the near-term to return to a country that has made headlines for its protests and violent crackdowns since Mubarak’s ouster could be a tough task, particularly after the military removed Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, last summer.”

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