Egyptian Oases as a Tourist destination from the Perspective of Hotels and Tourism Companies

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotels (EGOTH), Alexandria

2 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels Management, Pharos University, Alexandria

Abstract

 


The study aimed to know the opinion of tourism companies about the attraction elements of oases, to promote the Egyptian oases as a tourist destination, to identify the views of the tourism companies and hotels towards the quality, prices and facilities in oases' hotels and to highlight the response of hotels to tourism companies' reservations, offers and discounts to different groups. The sample of study is 339 Tourism companies and 15 hotels. Data were collected through two questionnaires. The first was directed to tourism companies included 25 statements divided into 4 dimensions, while the second included 24 statements and also divided into 4 dimensions. The results were statistically analyzed and the most important results were: The opinions of tourism companies and hotels agreed that the accommodation prices and the average price of food and beverages in oases' hotels are lower than other tourist destinations. The results also revealed the differences in opinions of tourism companies about the presence of many attraction elements in Egyptian oases and that the tourism companies can't direct the international tourism agencies towards the promotion of oases as a tourist destination, as the tourism companies worked on implementing the programs of the international tourist agencies without interfering in the required tourists destination. The study recommended that work on the redrawing of the map of Egyptian tourist investment, ranking the Egyptian oases center fits with what it possesses of tourist inducements further statistical studies to reveal the actual sizes of the threat posed by the Egyptian oases  of investment volume and tourist income for Egypt and the need for the organs of the state sought to promote internationally the oases by orienting of the new tourist markets in line with the opinions of its members with the oases of temptations.
 

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