Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said on Sunday that strenuous efforts are now exerted to boost cultural tourism in Egypt, which has been affected since the January 25 revolution.
In statements, Zaazou said that celebrities' visits of the tourist sites in Egypt help promote tourism in the state.
He also shed light on several foreign officials' visits to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square during the past period, including British Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs Tobias Ellwood and the wife of the Japanese prime minister