As per travel industry analysts, the political crisis in Egypt could lead to an increase in Dubai's tourism traffic as travellers rearrange their holiday plans, according to a PTI report.

Dubai is likely to benefit from the fallout as thousands of regional holidaymakers change 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, but 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." said Mona Faraj, research analyst for the Middle East at PhoCusWright.

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