{"id":35489,"date":"2017-12-12T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/egipet-blizko.html"},"modified":"2017-12-12T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T00:01:08","slug":"egipet-blizko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/egipet-blizko","title":{"rendered":"Is Egypt close?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Vice President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI) Yuri Barzykin suggested that Egypt&#039;s opening could occur in early 2018, Interfax-Tourism reports.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/9099fb71e46f9b7c0a3502e45b38b520.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Next year, a destination like Egypt will appear,&quot; said Yu. Barzykin. <!--more-->at a press conference organized by the Interfax-Ural agency in Yekaterinburg on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added that procedures for restoring regular flights are almost complete.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;As of December, aviation authorities have completed virtually all procedures to resume scheduled flights to Cairo. Charter flights to Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh are a different story,&quot; explained Yury Barzykin.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to Mikhail Maltsev, Executive Director of the Ural Tourism Association and a member of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI) Board of Directors, Ural tour operators will be able to prepare tours to Egypt within two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;Once the Egyptian destination is officially opened, Ural tour operators will need between a week and two to prepare, adapt, and present their tour products to travel agencies for end consumers,&quot; noted M. Maltseva.<\/p>\n<p>\nAir travel to Egypt was suspended in November 2015 following a terrorist attack over the Sinai Peninsula that killed over 200 Russians aboard a Kogalymavia airliner. In early September, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed hope that air travel to Egypt would be fully restored soon, provided flight safety was assured.<\/p>\n<p>\nAs reported <strong>RIA Novosti <\/strong>Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov announced that he may travel to Egypt with President Vladimir Putin on December 11 as part of a Russian delegation. In that case, the possibility of resuming air travel between the two countries will be discussed.<\/p>\n<p>\n&quot;There&#039;s a possibility (of participating in the visit as part of the Russian delegation \u2013 ed.). If I go, then, of course, this issue (the resumption of air travel \u2013 ed.) will certainly be on the agenda with my counterpart,&quot; Sokolov told RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen asked whether air travel could resume in the foreseeable future, Sokolov replied that there was no new information on this matter at this time.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trn-news.ru\/news\/67306\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yuri Barzykin, Vice President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RUTI), suggested that Egypt could open in early 2018, Interfax-Tourism reports. &quot;Next year<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-35489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti","tag-egipet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}