Egypt delays fee hike for tourist entry visas to July - Ahram Online

Probably as official as we are going to get, it is going up to $60 but not until July



Egypt delays fee hike for tourist entry visas to July - Politics - Egypt - Ahram Online: Egypt is postponing a fee hike in tourist entry visas - a decision announced last week - until July, the country’s tourism ministry said on Saturday.

In statements to state news agency MENA, the ministry said the new fee -- which will increase from $25 to $60 -- will be implemented starting 1 July 2017, instead of a planned 1 March date.

The ministry did not provide a reason for the delay, however, sources in the tourism sector told Al-Ahram Arabic news website that the decision to postpone came after the foreign ministry stepped in to deal with complaints from the tourism sector to the cabinet saying the fee hike was too abrupt.