Tag: Sharm El-Sheikh

Egypt: British Airways Suspends Flights to Sharm El-Sheikh

June 22, 2016

Egypt’s tourism industry Tuesday received another major blow as UK top airline British Airways (BA) announced it was suspending flights to Sharm el Sheikh indefinitely. ... Read More

Egypt-Russia: Putin Conditions Resumption of Air Links to Enhanced Security at Airports

April 15, 2016

Russian President Thursday said air traffic between Egypt and Russia will not resume unless Egyptian authorities agree to enhance security at airports. Russian authorities halted ... Read More

Egypt: 24% drop in Russian tourists’ arrival

February 12, 2016

The number of Russian tourists’ arrival in Egypt has dropped by 23.9% in 2015 compared with 2014 figures. “A total of 2.4 million Russian tourists ... Read More

North Africa Tourism Plummets By 8 % in 2015 Due to Terrorism (WTO)

January 20, 2016

As international tourism grew by 4.4 pc in 2015 to reach a record of 1.2 billion arrivals, the number of foreign tourists dropped by 8 ... Read More

Egypt: IMF, ADB agree to release billions to support Egypt’s weak budget

December 18, 2015

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the African Development Bank (ADB) have approved this week release of billions in form of loans to Egypt in ... Read More

Russia, UK resume flights to Egypt after brief suspension

December 1, 2015

Egyptian aviation authorities announced Monday resumption of Russian flights to Cairo after Russian authorities banned flights to Egypt initially for many months. UK is to ... Read More

Egypt-Russia: Russian officials dismiss IS claims it downed the Russian plane

November 2, 2015

A Russian inter-government aviation official Sunday rejected the IS group’s claims it brought down the Russian passenger plane which crashed Saturday in Sinai leaving all ... Read More

Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood clashes with security forces, Morsi encourages more actions

July 18, 2015

Clashes between supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and security forces after the prayers of Eid al-fitr have left six people dead and at least 15 ... Read More

Egypt Gets $ 500 M Afreximbank Loan to Promote exports to Africa

June 12, 2015

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has agreed to extend Egypt a $ 500 million credit line to support its trade projects and exports to other ... Read More

Egypt : UAE tops Egypt’s tourism scale

July 14, 2014

The influx of tourists to Egypt has been declining since 2011 but the country continues to register a significant increase of visitors coming from the ... Read More