It has stopped short of advising against travel to the north African country, making it more likely that holidaymakers will lose their money should they wish to cancel their holidays due to fear of terrorism.
One British national has been confirmed dead as a result of the bombing, which ripped through the popular resort.
A further ten Britons are likely to be among the victims of the blasts, which are believed to have killed 80 and injured 200 people.
Currently the FCO advice reads: “There is a high threat from terrorism in Egypt. On July 23rd a number of bombs exploded in Sharm al-Sheikh in the Sinai peninsula. There are over 200 injured, including several British nationals and over 80 dead.”
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The largest company for tourism in Europe on Friday said that the explosions which took lace in the Egyptian Sharm al-Sheikh resort on Saturday pushed only 3% of its clients to cancel their flights to the city or change their bookings.
Folker Boucher, chairman of the German TUA company said that 3% of those already booked clients had actually changed their travel plans to Egypt following the explosions in which more than 60 persons were killed. He said that this number of changes in the booking might change to 5%.
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul-Gheit on Friday urged his EU, US
The Seattle Times’ Carol Pucci asks a great question: Why did the recent London bombings result in only a “brief and restrained” travel advisory from the U.S. State Department, while the terrorist attack in Egypt prompted a much more strongly worded advisory? Could it be—gasp—that politics are involved? It’s not a new question, but it’s as relevant as ever. Any traveler who has spent more than a few minutes studying State Department pronouncements for various countries could come up with numerous perplexing inconsistencies.
The State Department, of course, denies politics are involved in its travel warnings. But others aren’t so
Srinagar, June 28: In winter this year, Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Sayeed and the Tourism Minister Ghulam Hassan Mir were in London to motivate the British government and many other European nations to remove adverse advisories about travelling to Kashmir. The presumption was that ‘normalcy’ has returned to the Valley and ‘acts of violence were aberrations.’ The PDP president Mehbooba Mufti urged McDonald’s—her favourite—to open its outlet here.
Senior officials of the Tourism Department also visited Madrid, London, Paris and Rome and lobbied for the removal of travel advisories.
The visits have so far neither brought McDonalds to Kashmir nor
The Foreign Office today revised its Travel Advice for Bolivia. We are advising against all but essential travel to La Paz and the Altiplano - which encompasses Western Bolivia - due to the impact of continuing civil unrest in the country.
The summary for the travel advice reads:
* Due to the ongoing civil unrest in Bolivia, we advise against all but essential travel to La Paz and the Altiplano.
* Since 23 May 2005, there have been strikes and mass demonstrations across Bolivia. There are roadblocks throughout the country which are affecting travel, including access to La Paz airport.
The Egyptian government plans to attract an extra 1 million tourists a year to Egypt every year for the next decade, more than doubling the current total to 18 million by 2015, President Hosni Mubarak said Sunday.
he government's 10-year plan will require building 15,000 extra hotel rooms a year, bringing the total to 300,000, he said in a speech in the south Egyptian town of Luxor, the center for visits to many of Egypt's pharaonic sites.
To achieve this target, the private sector will have to invest at least $1.4 billion a year in the tourism sector, he added.
Mubarak said the
