The ghost town of Sharm El Sheikh: How bombings, political turmoil and a plane crash have left Egypt's tourist hotspots deserted with abandoned hotels and empty beaches a reminder of what they have lost 

• Some 15million tourists visited Egypt up until the 2011 Arab Spring – but that figure had fallen to just 9m last year
• Bombing of Russian passenger jet by ISIS over Sinai saw British Airways and easyJet cancel flights until next year
• Photographers have documented the decline of the region after finding more and more places were closing down

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Empty: A man sweeps the floor ahead of an Arabian Nights show in the shadow of a fake Sphinx in Sharm el Sheikh. Egypt's tourism industry is in crisis after a decade of bombings, political turmoil and last month's terror attack on a plane over the Sinai Peninsula