Sunday 22 May 2016

Unrest slows UK travel to Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey

Visits to Egypt down 50% since 2011, trips to Tunisia down 40% last year, and bookings for Turkey down by a third this year

A series of terrorist attacks, geopolitical unrest and an unabating migration crisis have dealt a severe blow to the tourist economies of north Africa and the near east, figures suggest.

Office for National Statistics figures released on Friday show that the numbers of British nationals travelling to past holiday hotspots such as Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey is in sharp decline.

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