Algerian travel agencies to boycott Egypt and shift focus on southern Algeria

Using the slogan “ Askrem rather than Ahram” (Pyramids), the Algerian travel agencies have decided to transfer more than 5 thousand Algerian tourists to southern Algeria instead of Egypt as part of the new year’s celebrations.

• The decision came as a response to the ignoble campaign launched by the Egyptian media against Algeria in the wake of the sad events that occurred in Cairo during the match that opposed the two national teams.
• The president of the national Travel Agencies Union, Bechir Djerribi has indicated that the 800 travel agencies that count the union were ordered to boycott the destination of Egypt in the future, forcing them to cancel their usual program and shifting their focus to the southern destination with a lower coast in comparison to Egypt.
• For his part, M Hamia has indicated that first estimates reveal that the number of the Algerian clients who booked in different travel agencies cross the country to spend the New Year’s Eve in the south has surpassed 10 thousands, knowing that this period witnesses several international cultural and sports events in which 300 Europeans are set to take part in, including the International Ahagar Marathon and the Amazigh Song Festival.
• M Hamia went on saying that this new program will open other prospects for the Algerian tourists making a cost comparison between a 10 day stay in Egypt and southern Algeria indicating that the second destination is cheaper than the first one.
• The union has vowed to exclude travel agencies which carry on dealing with their Egyptian counterparts especially that the Algerian citizens have spontaneously decided to boycott the destination Egypt.