German ambassador Hansjörg Haber issued a statement Sunday announcing the warning for traveling by land in South Sinai has now been lifted.
Haber said this step was justified given the change in the safety situation. In the same statement, the ambassador spoke of his joy on lifting the warning just before the ITB exhibition, the international tourism trade fair in Berlin, enabling a push for the Egyptian tourism industry.
Only last summer, several European countries, including Germany, lifted the travel ban for South Sinai. It had been imposed as a reaction to the bomb attack that killed three South Korean tourists and their Egyptian driver in February 2014.
Janina Markewitsch, Head of the German embassy’s Press Section, advised that “The travel advice are constantly reviewed and adapted; it reflects the current analysis of the security situation on the ground”.
She added that it therefore was not possible to uphold the travel warning, but still recommended “particular caution when traveling through this area”.