In a letter to prime minister Theresa May, David Scowsill, president and chief executive of the WTTC, and Taleb Rifai, the secretary-general of the UNWTO, said it was important to start flying to the resort again.
They urged the government to lift advice against flying to the airport which has been in place since a Metrojet airline flying from Sharm el Sheikh to St Petersburg crashed in the Sinai Desert in October 2015.
They said: “Travel and tourism is vital to Egypt’s economy and social peace, contributing 11% of the country’s GDP and 2.6 million in jobs in 2015. The reduction of visitors has created huge employment losses.
