Ukrainian holiday bookings to Egypt continue to increase despite state of emergency

Ukrainian tourists’ holiday bookings to Egypt have continued to increase despite the state of emergency imposed in Egypt, which led the Ukrainian government to issue a travel warning. A Ukrainian tour operator tells Ukrinform that the agency has booked trips to Egypt for some 90,000 Ukrainians since the state of emergency was renewed in July, with 40,000 bookings in October alone. Around 300k Ukrainians will have visited Egypt by the end of 2017, which would mark an increase of more than 100% y-o-y, according to the source.