Egypt protests could take nearly 15 million euros from thepockets of Romanian travel operators, who say if the situation inEgypt fails to stabilise, Egyptian travel destinations could becompromised, reveals a ZF analysis.
In other words, the nearly 25,000 Romanians, that travel agenciesexpected to attract this year with holiday packages to Egypt, couldfind an alternative to the one-week holiday to Egyptian resorts,which costs 600 euros on average. Egypt is one of Romanians'favourite travel destinations, behind Greece and Turkey last year.In 2009 Egypt attracted 12.5 million tourists, who fetched 10.8million-dollar revenues, contributing 11% of the country'sGDP.
Traian Bădulescu, representative of the National Travel AgenciesAssociation said there was currently only a group of 15 Romaniantravellers in Egypt, who left on a travel circuit with Tez Toursagency.
"We have cancelled the charter flights scheduled for January 29thand February 5th to Sharm El Sheikh and Hurghada. All groups ofRomanian travellers have been brought home," said Doina Grigoraş,representative of Tez Tour tour operator, which sells holidaypackages to Egypt.
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