CAIRO: Egypt's tourism industry, after suffering a devastating blow during the January 25 uprisings against former president Hosni Mubarak, is once again facing crisis, as violence between demonstrators and Egyptian security forces continues to roar in Cairo and several other Egyptian cities. Travel agencies from Britain, Japan, Russia, and Italy– countries that represent major markets for Egypt's tourism industry, have cancelled flights to Egypt in light of the violence that has broken out in the nation. Additionally, some travel agencies have threatened to remove Egypt as a travel destination from their programs entirely if violence does not come to an end in a timely fashion, according to the head of the Egyptian Federation of Tourism Chambers, Elhami Zayat, in an interview with Egypt's Al-Ahram newspaper. The tourism industry is normally Egypt's second highest revenue source, behind expatriate remittances. Over the last few months, it has slowly climbed out of the devastation it sustained in the aftermath of the uprisings in January and February. However, following the outbreak of violence last week, “Everything has been affected. It is very slow in Dahab right now. There have been a lot of cancellations,” stated Jimmy Dahab, a hotel and restaurant owner in Dahab, in an interview with Bikyamasr.com. Some business owners partly blame an influx of negative media for the decline. “After the January revolution, after Mubarak left, the media left us alone. It went to Syria and Yemen. Now the media is refocused on Egypt,” added Dahab. BM