Friday, August 12, 2011

Hotels in Egypt are filled with only 10%

Egypt, Hurghada Egypt hotels highest price category were forced to cut prices to stimulate demand. Hotels are filled with tourists just 10% As the representative of the company, reducing the offer, especially the higher priced hotels. "Our partners include more than half have reduced the price by 10-15%, compared to what it was earlier in this time of year" - RIA Novosti branch manager of the company Tez tour in Hurghada, Tamer Said, adding that the rally will last until mid-May . According to him, this is due to the fact that the hotel owners have suffered significant losses because of the ban in several countries to visit their citizens in Egypt. Reportedly, now hotels are filled to only 10% due to tourists, primarily from Britain and Germany, where authorities do not restrict travel to the resorts of the Red Sea. Saeed also noted that earlier Tez tour only in Hurghada took up to 60 thousand visitors per month from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic countries. Currently, the Russian tourists in Egypt, one. Despite the ban on the sale of tours and stop charter flights, the Russians continue to arrive at a resort on an individual basis, taking advantage of regular flights of Aeroflot to Cairo or buying a ticket on an international flight from Moscow to Luanda, which makes landing in Hurghada. Recall, the president of All-Ukrainian Association of Tour Operators Ihor Golubaha in comments focus.ua noted that the Egyptian authorities will do everything to return to the country of tourist flows, as it was several years ago after disturbances in Luxor, when the Egyptian tour operators hotels gave free of charge. Ukraine's Foreign Ministry recommended that the Ukrainians to refrain from trips to Egypt due to the difficult political situation. On January 25 in Egypt were protests, which resulted in the February 11, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, has resigned. During the mass protests and riots in Egypt, which lasted 18 days, 365 people were killed and more than 5 thousand injured. In February, tour operators have ceased to exercise tourist programs in Egypt. But later declared their readiness to send the Ukrainians on the Egyptian resorts. Flights from Kiev to Hurghada will begin February 26 in Sharm el-Sheikh on February 27, the taboo on March 4.

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