Dubai, Feb 7 (PTI) Political crisis in Egypt could lead to an upswing in Dubai's tourism traffic as travellers rearrange their holiday plans, travel industry analysts have said.
According to Mona Faraj, research analyst for the Middle East at PhoCusWright, Dubai is likely to benefit from the fallout as thousands of regional holidaymakers amend their travel plans in favour of a safer destination.
"We're in the spring holiday season and expectations were that Egypt, Lebanon and Dubai [would see the most traffic]," she was quoted by Arabian Business as saying.
"Now I'm positive that there will be no hotel available in Dubai because all of the Saudi traffic has been diverted to Dubai because of the current political situation".
Saudi Arabia is likely to provide a significant portion of tourism traffic to the UAE, Faraj said, though European travellers also likely to push figures up.