French tourism companies to organize direct flights to Taba

French travel agencies companies will organize direct air flights to new Egyptian tourist destinations. The new trips will include weekly flights from Paris, Lyon and Nantes to Hurghada as well as flights from Paris, Lyon, Nantes and Deauville to Taba.

French companies also decided to increase the number of direct flights to Luxor; operating new trips from Lyon, Nantes, Marseille, Toulouse and Bordeaux and promoted new Nile River cruises, with visits to Sinai and the Red Sea.

The flow of French tourists into Egypt is flourishing. The count of French tourists who visited Egypt during the first half of 2008 increased 27 percent, bringing their number to 305,000 tourist compared to some 244,000 who visited the country during the same period last year. –MENA

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