Egypt's tourism revenues in 2014 rose to $7.5 billion from $5.9 billion the previous year, the tourism minister said on Sunday, marking a 27 percent increase in revenues from one of the country's major sectors. The country received 9.9 million tourists in 2014, up from 9.5 million in 2013, Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou told a news conference. The country's tourism sector, an important source of foreign currency, suffered a series of blows since the January 2011 revolution which toppled Hosni Mubarak. Tourist numbers picked up dramatically last summer after several European countries lifted travel warnings against Egypt's popular Red Sea resorts in the Sinai peninsula. Egypt welcome some 14.7 million tourists in 2010, generating $12.5 billion in revenues, before the revolution. http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/121905.aspx