There are several advantages of electric hand dryers over other methods of hand drying.

Lobbying against electric hand drying hurts progress and the environment
There is an excellent new German article by Frederik Cyrus Roeder about the interests of the paper industry and their myths that electric hand dryers are not hygienic! Published in Huffington Post and very worth reading!
https://www.huffingtonpost.de/fred-roeder/kommt-aus-bruessel-bald-d_b_18579334.html