Egypt welcomes back tourists to the Red Sea with video campaign: The Tourism Ministry is out with a promotional video campaign welcoming tourists back to Red Sea resort towns — and reminding would-be tourists of the warm, pristine waters that await them (watch, runtime: 01:10). The short video features tourists describing their experience visiting Egypt during the pandemic, including the safety precautions currently in place. We’ve been seeing the tourism industry slowly but surely staging a recovery over the past couple of weeks, with national flag carrier EgyptAir’s operation rates reaching a post-covid record this week, and some 126k tourists arriving in Hurghada, Sharm El Sheikh, and Matrouh since the resumption of commercial air travel in early July.