On 14 January 2018, Rania Al-Mashat was appointed Minister of Tourism until December 2019.

More than 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008, providing revenues of nearly $11 billion.

[1] In 2016, the minister of tourism expressed his concern and optimism about tourists returning to Egypt, despite the downing of a Russian flight in 2015.

The minister has said "we are all in this together," referring to terrorism that hurts a country's tourism industry.

[5] In May 2018, the last chariot belonging to King Tut was escorted with a parade to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM).