Egyptian Hotel Association directs hotels to accommodate stranded Ukrainian and Russian tourists

The Egyptian Hotel Association has directed all hotels in the country to continue to accommodate stranded Ukrainian and Russian tourists, who are unable to leave due to the current developments in Ukraine.

Tourists from Russia and Ukraine make up the bulk of visitors to the Arab country, traditionally constituting almost a third of the 12 million tourists who visited in peak years. 

Between 300,000 and 500,000 Russian tourists are believed to have visited Egypt each month as of July last year, with 125,000 Russian tourists visiting the country in the first two weeks of 2022. Meanwhile, in 2019, 1.6 million Ukrainian tourists visited Egypt.

The fallout from the conflict comes as the tourism sector has been trying to recover from a series of setbacks in the past few years.