The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has advised its citizens not to travel to certain areas in Egypt due to an “increase in criminal activities and continued terrorist attacks,” a statement said.
According to the statement, the FCO called on British citizens not to travel to “the Governorate of South Sinai, with the exception of the area within the Sharm Al-Sheikh perimeter barrier… However, we advise against all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm Al-Sheikh.”
The FCO also named other places, including the “the area west of the Nile Valley and Nile Delta regions.”
It also said: “The tourist areas along the Nile river (including Luxor, Qina, Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Valley of the Kings) and the Red Sea resorts of Sharm Al-Sheikh and Hurghada are not included in the areas to which the FCO advise against all but essential travel.”
However, the FCO was keen on stressing that it advised against any air travel to the Sharm Al-Sheikh resort.
According to the statement, the UK “will continue working with the Egyptian Authorities to enable regular flights between the UK and Sharm Al-Sheikh to resume.”
The statement continued: “We are also liaising with travel companies so that they are able to resume flights and holidays in Sharm Al-Sheikh as soon as appropriate security arrangements are in place.”
In the statement, the FCO cited the latest explosion that took places in the vicinity of the Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo on 11 December, as well as the crash of a Russian plane in Sinai as examples of turbulence in the country.
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