Major General Hatem Mounir, Director General of Tourism Investment in the Red Sea said that the tourism companies began open new lines with hotels and resorts to maintain reservations to return again to Egypt.

Munir said that the occupancy rate of more than 35 hotels in the county has reached zero, that negatively effect the employment because of recent events, pointing out that the Assembly had received notifications from the tourist hotels confirming that the tour operators had contacted them for booking for the last week of this February.

Major General Ahmed Shoukry, Acting Director of Hurghada airport said that Hurghada airport received today 14 flights carrying over 850 tourists from different nationalities.