As corv just wrote, the decline in tourism is a result of the Arab Sprint and the instability, let alone wars, it produced. Not the other way around.
The linked article from 2011 is great reading in hindsight.
> This might be the last and best opportunity for the West to facilitate the creation of another “island of peace” — a sympathetic democratic community in the much-troubled Arab world.
If there ever was such a plan, it failed miserably.
Anyway I'm no expert on the subject, just a witness of the time and I don't remember anything that links these two.
The linked article from 2011 is great reading in hindsight.
> This might be the last and best opportunity for the West to facilitate the creation of another “island of peace” — a sympathetic democratic community in the much-troubled Arab world.
If there ever was such a plan, it failed miserably.
Anyway I'm no expert on the subject, just a witness of the time and I don't remember anything that links these two.