Issue Date: 22nd October 2019
Further to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) changing the overall level of the FCO Travel Advice for Egypt in November 2015, to advise against all but essential travel to or from Sharm El Sheikh by air, the FCO have today removed the advice against travel to or from Sharm El Sheikh by air.
The FCO advise against all but essential travel to:
- The Governorate of South Sinai, except the area within the Sharm el Sheikh perimeter barrier, which includes the airport and the areas of Sharm el Maya, Hadaba, Naama Bay, Sharks Bay and Nabq.
- The area west of the Nile Valley and Nile Delta regions, excluding the coastal areas between the Nile Delta and Marsa Matruh.