Ireland has lifted its warning against travel to Sharm El-Sheikh in South Sinai, Egypt's tourism ministry announced on Saturday.

Ireland is the fourth European country to remove its travel ban on the Egyptian tourist hotspot, following Germany, Italy and Denmark.

Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou has been trying to remove all such warnings imposed by European countries since February, when a bomb blast on a tour bus in South Sinai killed three South Koreans and their Egyptian driver and raised concerns about safety in Red Sea resorts.

The number of Irish tourists who visited Egypt in the first six months of the current year reached 6,687, down 43 percent from the same period of last year, official figures show.