New 2 weekly flights between Bergamo, Alexandria launched

CAIRO – 9 May 2018: New two-weekly flights were launched between Egypt and Italy on Friday May 4.

According to Italian magazine, Easyviaggio, the two-weekly flights by Air Arabia Egypt will be from Orio al Serio International Airport in Bergamo city to Alexandria. The flights are scheduled to be on Sundays and Fridays all year.

On May 5, official source at Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism said to media outlets that Egypt is seeing a 100 percent rise in bookings by Italian holidaymakers during the summer season, compared to the same period last year, according to Italian tour operators .

He added that the months of January and February of this year saw a 75 percent increase year-on-year in the number of Italian tourists visiting Egypt.

The Italian daily newspaper, La Stampa, said in a report on Friday, May 4, that Italian tourism to Egypt doubled during the first months of 2018, with Italian tourists increasing by a whopping 94 percent.

The newspaper added that the number of Italian tourists who visited Egypt in January 2018 stood at 15,707, compared to 12,471 in January 2017, increasing by 25.9 percent.
In February, the number increased by 76.2 percent year-on-year, standing at 19,241.

Tourism in Egypt has been picking up recently, with Egypt’s tourism revenues jumping 211.8 percent year-on-year to $5.3 billion in the first nine months of 2017, compared to $1.7 billion the year before.