British travel group says demand picking up for Egypt holidays

British travel group Thomas Cook said Thursday (February 9th) that demand for holidays in Egypt is picking up again, after unrest had pushed holidaymakers into choosing rival destinations, AFP reported.

The update came as Thomas Cook announced flat revenues and losses for its first quarter, or three months to the end of December.

"Continued reductions in bookings to Turkey have been more than offset by strong demand for Greece," the company said of its holidays for summer 2017.

"We have also grown bookings significantly to a number of smaller European destinations including Cyprus, Bulgaria, Croatia and Portugal, and we have seen a strengthening of demand for Egypt and Morocco."

Thomas Cook, along with other UK travel groups and airlines, last year cancelled flights to the Egyptian resort of Sharm al-Sheikh, after a Russian airliner crashed nearby in late 2015, killing all 224 people on board.

Investigators have concluded the aircraft was downed by a bomb, and the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) has claimed responsibility.

The UK Foreign Office meanwhile is sticking to its advice of warning Britons "against all but essential travel by air to or from Sharm al-Sheikh".

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