About 90% of Russians, book tours to Egypt for the next six months, cancel orders and other areas chosen for the rest - mainly Turkey and Tunisia.However, new tours they have to pay extra, because they are somewhat more expensive trips to Egypt.
According to the Federal Agency for Tourism (Federal Tourism Agency), the price difference of the Egyptian and other popular destinations ranging from 3% to 30%.In order not to lose money, tourists have to reduce stardom hotel and airfare conditions.
situation in Egypt remains tense, but despite this, at the moment there are about 40 thousand Russian tourists.They refuse to travel mainly those Russians who bought a tour at a later date.
According to head of the Federal Tourism Agency Alexander Radkov, is not excluded and the evacuation of Russians from Egypt.However, for as long as such measures are no preconditions.
"The problem is that the ban tourists to travel to any country, we can not, to this they have a constitutional right - said Radkov. - At the moment, the evacuation has not yet announced, and hopefully before it will not come. But the situation is very complicated, and we do not know how it will develop further. Do not rule out the possibility of the country sliding into the abyss of civil war, and then there will be a question of the evacuation of tourists. "
Rosturizm encourages tour operators to reduce the planned sale of the Egyptian direction and if possible to redirect tourists to other destinations.Many large companies have already stopped selling tours to Egypt.Those who still offer such tours are obliged to inform tourists about the current situation on the Egyptian resorts of all possible ways.In addition, the Federal Agency for Tourism does not recommend Russians to schedule a winter holiday in the country.
At the same time, the Minister of Tourism of Egypt Hisham Zaazua urged the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation to withdraw travel advisories not to travel to that country, particularly in the Red Sea resorts.The official says that the situation in this region is the most calm and urges the Russian authorities to send the Red Sea experts to personally assess the level of security in the places of leisure.The same proposal the Ministry of Tourism has sent a number of other European countries.
Articles Source: travel.ru
