President Abdel Fattah el Sisi  issued, a presidential decree, stipulating  the restructuring  of the Supreme Council of Tourism.

According to the presidential decree, the Supreme Council of Tourism is due to be  under the chairmanship of the Egyptian President and membership of, the Prime Minister Sherif Ismail, and the Ministers of Defense and Military Production, Youth and Sports and the Foreign Ministry and ministries of Interior and Development and Domestic Development and International Cooperation, Culture and Communication and Information Technology, Civil Aviation, Finance, Archeology, Tourism, Investment and Head of the General Intelligence Service, and Chairman of the Administrative Control Authority, and Chairman of the Egyptian Federation of Chamber of Tourism, along with two tourism  experts to be selected by the Minister of Tourism.

The Council is  to propose policies that should be   adhered to  so as to activate tourism movement in Egypt,  follow up implementation, suggest necessary legislations and regulations for boosting  tourism activities, adoption of the general plan of new tourism zones, find appropriate solutions to the problems and difficulties hindering  tourism  progress, coordinate efforts and mechanisms of the various ministries to fulfill  development plans, determine the role of each ministry activate tourism, assess activities and performance of the tourism sector.

The decree stipulates that all the Council's resolutions after being  approved  by  the President of the Republic, is mandatory  to the various  ministries and administrative bodies. The Council holds a semi annual meetings, and has a permanent technical secretariat formed in terms of  a decision by the Minister of Tourism.

The Tourism Minister reviewed travel indexes of 2016, which included the number of tourists, the average number of tourist nights, the volume of tourist spending and hotel occupancy rates, said presidential spokesman Alaa Youssef.