CAIRO - Mohamed Ibrahim, the Minister of Antiquities, said that his Ministry, self-funding for many years, has been hard it by the crisis in the tourism sector in the wake of the January 25th Revolution, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported. He told the People's Assembly's Media and Culture Committee, which was discussing the ‘'Egypt is Well' initiative that the tourism sector must be supported, with all parties in Egypt, whether taxi drivers or Tourism Ministry officials, must work together to encourage tourists to come back to Egypt. Ibrahim added that many projects have been launched in recent months to activate tourism, including the new Suez, Kom Ombo and Crocodile museums. General Abdel-Rehim Hassan, the head of the Tourism Police, says that peace and security are the two basic elements for boosting tourism. “There are plans to protect tourism. In the meantime, none of the tourism police has been exposed to violence since the revolution. “But there have been criminal incidents which could derail tourism, like the blocking of roads, the recent kidnapping of tourists in Sinai, the closure of ‘Hawees Asna' [the navigation line between Luxor and Aswan] and the workers' continued protests,” he explains. Tourism has fallen by 30 per cent since the revolution, due to the political unrest and the lax security situation.