Expected to see a number of Russian tourists a big drop during the Christmas holiday season, the end of the year, that the pressures put on the Russian ruble against the dollar recently will lead to a decline in purchasing power of the Russian tourists. Russian market and one of the largest exporting market for tourism to Egypt, where Tourism Minister Hisham Zazou stressed that Egypt has great confidence among tour operators and travel agents Russians, especially with the political instability gripping the country, pointing out that the tourist destination of Egypt tops the ranking of countries visited by Russian tourists, expected that the number of 3 million tourists arrive by the end of this year. The Russian ruble fell against the dollar will reduce the chances of Russian tourists in the provision of dollar liquidity and the audience to Egypt to spend the Christmas holiday occasion this year, which may not achieve the expected boom during the winter season.
The Minister of Tourism held a joint press conference with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Erkadbe Forkovic presence of Investment Minister Ashraf Salman, which he referred to a depth of Egyptian-Russian relations in many areas, especially the tourism, praising fondly Russian tourists purposes tourist Red Sea and satisfaction and optimism and travel agents Russians sites in tourism Egyptian especially after the election of the President of the Republic and legislative elections near.
Sami al-Suleiman, President of Investors Association Taba, Nuweiba The decline suffered by Russian currency against the dollar would have a negative impact on the Russian inbound tourism traffic during the festive season of Christmas. The Russian currency decline by 50% over the last week the latest severe confusion of Russian tourists may show its impact in the coming period in the cancellation of a number of bookings. Russian tourism represents a significant part of the occupancy in Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh, which could threaten the winter season.
I agree with the previous opinion Ghoneim board member of the Egyptian Federation of Chambers of Tourism Management, which predicted that the number of Russian tourists back down in the coming period at a rate ranging between 20 to 25% in the wake of the global rise of the dollar against the Russian ruble.
The Russian tourist terminate all dealings in dollars, which would be extremely difficult to receiving it from Russia, has been hampered by Iqbal Russian tourists to Egypt. That threatens to drop the ruble against the dollar Russian tourism is expected to attend the Christmas holiday in Egypt crisis. That Russian tourists are dealing in dollars which makes them facing a real crisis in light of the decline of the right ruble against the dollar. The Russian currency has come under severe selling pressure this week, the central bank was forced to raise its key interest rate 650 basis points in an emergency intervention failed to support the ruble.
Despite the hot events that Egypt experienced because of the violence that threaten the security and stability at the hands of terrorist groups and their soldiers in the Sinai for killing and torturing and burning police stations, churches and public and private property in the various provinces, which led to stop the flow of tourists and take some States' decisions to ban travel tour groups to Egypt .. Despite this blackness and grief experienced by Egypt, tourism experts are optimistic and declare the challenge of restoring the speed of tourism tours and shuttle diplomacy efforts to Europe and to address the international tourism organizations to put pressure on governments to know the truth about the events without walking behind the Western media misleading.
Detection Hisham Zazou, Minister of Tourism for the intensification of meetings with leaders of the Ministry of Tourism and the Tourism Board to develop a way for tourism map in the current period in accordance with the circumstances in which the country is undergoing, where agreement was reached on several axes most important coordination with the State Department to work on lifting the warning issued by some countries exporting tourism to Egypt along with coordination with the ambassadors of Egypt abroad to transfer a true picture of the tourist areas and the distance from the epicenter Alahdat.ualla professional level is coordination with tour operators profession overseas partners to cooperate with them to clarify the picture for tourists in their own country and the emphasis on after tourist areas for the focus to events in addition to intensifying media visits to Egypt for the transfer of real image through their presence in tourist areas and to host a delegation of international security experts from countries exporting tourism to Egypt to see for themselves the reality in the tourist areas. In addition to the tourist office managers abroad to hold seminars and workshops with the tour operators and the media to convey the true picture about the events.
Especially with the decline in hotel occupancy number of tourist cities ratios as statistics recorded that the occupancy rate in Sharm el-Sheikh, ranging from 58-60% and include the nationalities of Italy, Germany and the Czech Republic, for Hurghada has occupancy rate reached 70% of the nationalities of Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic and Germany.
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