What is the budget to travel to the Arab world?
But then, how much does it cost to travel to a country of Arab culture ? Let’s start with the obvious: the closer the country is, the cheaper the plane ticket will be!
Cairo: accommodation in Egypt, one of the cheapest countries in the Arab world.
You can go to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, at really affordable prices , since you will find flights from € 50 and sometimes even less thanks to low-cost companies such as Ryanair. You will feel the charm of the East less than 1 or 2 hours by plane, in the case of the closest countries, from several Spanish cities, spending little money.
The price of a trip to the Arab countries does not have to be high. The criteria for evaluating the budget are: What is the budget to travel to the Arab world?
The price of the plane ticket,
The price of the possible visa: between € 10 and € 100 depending on the countries,
The cost of living at the destination (food, travel, housing).
You can easily assess the budget for the plane ticket and the visa, but how can you know what you will spend per day and per person at the destination? This website has some good databases to consult countries where life is expensive or cheap.
It should be noted that purchasing power represents the amount of goods and services that can be purchased with a given amount of money. For Westerners it is much higher than for the inhabitants of Arab countries.
Differences in productivity and wages are what explain the differences in the cost of living from one country to another. In a country where wages are higher than anywhere else (in Dubai, for example, incomes are higher than in Marrakech), companies increase their rates to pay wages and households can consume more.
Added to this is the State, which sometimes finances economic policy through taxes, which contributes to increasing the cost of living.
To get an idea of the cost of living in Algerian, Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, or Lebanese society, economists compare price levels in these countries with those in the Western world.
For example, the cost of living index (not to be confused with the general price index, which measures inflation) is based on the cost of living in New York.
Egypt has, with respect to 130 countries in the world, one of the lowest cost of living indexes in the world with 27.14, which means that life would be 72.86% cheaper in Egypt than in New York.
The Maghreb is therefore the cheapest region in the Muslim world:
Lebanon: 58.17
Jordan: 55.03
Bahrain: 56.93
Palestine: 51.09
Oman: 47.30
Saudi Arabia: 47.79 (country to avoid),
Iraq: 39.88 (country to avoid),
Libya: 58.22 (country to avoid),
Morocco: 34.23
Algeria: 30.43
Tunisia: 23.82
Syria: 24.95 (country to avoid),
Egypt: 27.14.
These indices are only indicative: even with a minimum wage, one can meet his needs in Beirut, while Libya is ranked as the most expensive country in the Arab League.
