Tourism in Eritrea made up 2% of
Eritrea's economy up to 1997. After 1998, revenues from tourism fell to one quarter of 1997 levels. In 2006 it made up less than 1% of the country's GDP.
[ The ]World Tourism Organization
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations specialized agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. UNWTO is the leading internati ...
calculated that the country's international tourism
International tourism is tourism that crosses national borders. Globalisation has made tourism a popular global leisure activity. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people "traveling to and staying in places outside their usual en ...
receipts in 2002 were just US$73 million.[Country Profile: Eritrea]
September 2005, Library of Congress Sources from 2015 states that main tourist are the eritrean diaspora. There are also a few curious architects
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visiting the country. However, the Eritrean airline, Eritrean Airlines
Eritrean Airlines (; ) is the national airline of Eritrea. Based at Asmara International Airport, it is wholly owned by the government of Eritrea. Scheduled service had been discontinued since 2008, and the airline operated only a few hajj fligh ...
, has not been allowed to fly international flights due to security breaches as well as sanctions which has led international visitors to rely on airlines such as Ethiopian Airlines and Turkish Airlines
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to get to the country.drought
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, political totalitarianism, and war.[Travel and Tourism in Eritrea]
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Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
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