By Akram Medhat
Helen Holidays will begin operating the first charter route from Tunisia to Sharm El-Sheikh, starting July 12 this month, with one flight a week, in cooperation with the Tunisian company "Karnak".
Mohamed Mostafa, head of Helen Holidays, told "Travel Yalla News" that it has been agreed to operate the flights for 8 weeks, at a rate of 176 passengers per flight, through a Tunisian airline.
Mostafa pointed out that large tourist groups are being brought from Tunisia on EgyptAir's scheduled flights to Cairo, reaching 30 groups during the current summer season.
According to tourism statistics obtained exclusively by "Travel Yalla News", inbound tourist traffic from the Maghreb countries saw collective increases at high rates compared with other Arab markets last May. Tunisia led that traffic with the arrival of about 4,000 tourists, up 42%, the highest rate of increase among Arab countries, and they spent about 28,000 tourist nights, up 143%. In the first five months of this year, they totaled 22,000 tourists, up 51%, and spent 109,000 tourist nights, up 118%.
