Edward Oakden told delegates at the Aito Overseas Conference in Jordan that security procedures at the Egyptian destination’s airport were “simply inadequate” in their current form.
He added that tourism to the Middle East region as a whole faced “obvious challenges which are not going to be quickly resolved”.
Oakden said the flight ban would remain in place despite recent calls on the government to scrap it from a number of travel companies and organisations including Aito, Monarch and Saga Holidays.
It was implemented after the suspected bombing of Russian Metrojet Flight 9268 in October 2015 which killed 224 people.
