Winter sun hotspot to scrap visa costs for tourists this summer… saving families £80

ONE of Egypt's fashionable vacation hotspots volition beryllium visa-free to sojourn this summer.

The metropolis of Luxor welcomed caller flights from some easyJet and TUI last year.

And caller rules mean holidaymakers flying straight to Luxor and Aswan airports this summer won't person to fork retired for the £20 visas.

The inaugural was announced by Sherif Fathy, the country's curate of Tourism and Antiquities, astatine the International Tourism Fair Fitur successful Madrid.

Expected to tally from May to October, the strategy has been introduced successful a bid to thrust tourists to the country successful the summer.

This is due to the fact that the fig of tourists visiting typically dips arsenic temperatures tin deed 41C.

A 30-day tourer visa successful Egypt presently costs $25 (£20), which means a household of 4 could prevention £80 connected the terms of their holiday.

According to the UK Gov website, Brit holidaymakers who enactment for little than 15 days astatine resorts successful Sharm el Sheikh, Dahab, Nuweiba oregon Taba tin already question visa-free.

Holidaymakers who program to enactment for longer, oregon question extracurricular of these 3 resorts, volition request to acquisition a visa.

Brits tin use for visas online oregon get 1 connected accomplishment astatine Egyptian airports.

Straddling the River Nile, Luxor is known for its ties to the past satellite and was erstwhile the superior of past Egypt from the 16th to the 11th centuries BCE.

Nowadays, its modern metropolis centre is located connected the East Bank, which is wherever the bulk of hotels and restaurants are located.

Tourist attractions connected its East Bank see Luxor Temple, a sprawling tract that's location to colossal statues and towering columns covered successful past hieroglyphs.

There's besides the arguably much celebrated Karnak Temple, location to temples, obelisks and adjacent a ineffable lake.

The 2 temples utilized to beryllium connected by the Avenue of the Sphinxes, a 3km-long agelong of Sphinx statues.

Sitting connected Luxor's West Bank is the Valley of the Kings, which is location to 62 past tombs, including that of the young pharaoh Tutankhamun.

And portion determination are nary nonstop flights to Aswan (Brits volition request to alteration successful Cairo) determination are inactive immoderate astonishing attractions to adhd to the bucket list., including a smattering of islands that beryllium successful the Nile.

There is Philae Temple, an land temple that was rebuilt brick-by-brick and taken from 1 land to another.

And Agatha Christie fans volition privation to caput to the Old Cataract Hotel wherever the crime writer wrote her acclaimed novel, Death connected the Nile.

Both easyJet and TUI run nonstop flights to Luxor from London Gatwick, with instrumentality fares from £180.

TUI's flights enactment up with their TUI River Cruises, with the five-star vessel TUI Al Horeya going on the River Nile.

Meanwhile, holidaymakers heading to Italy whitethorn beryllium forced to wage a caller tourer taxation nether proposals being discussed.

And present are each the new question rules facing Brits this year.