Limited effect of European toursim travel to Egypt

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 and Japanese counterparts not to issue travel advisory for their nationals against visiting Egypt or Sinai Peninsula.

Abul-Gheit said getting life back to normal in the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh is the strongest message the world can send in condemnation of such criminal acts.