The Effect of Environmental Practices on Tourism Destinations’ Image and Travel Decision-Making: A Comparative Study of the UAE, Algeria and Egypt

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1 University Center of Tipaza, Algeria

2 College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sharjah, UAE; Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University, Egypt

3 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Beni-Suef University, Egypt

Abstract

Due to its economic, social, cultural, and environmental benefits to destinations, eco-tourism has recently received critical attention by tourism destinations. This study aims to identify the environmental practices adopted by tourism destinations for marketing purposes comparing the UAE, Algeria and Egypt. These practices provide an image to tourists and help branding countries as green tourism destinations. This type of branding helps destinations to market their tourist activities globally, and to attract interested tourists to make travel decisions to such destinations. The study used a questionnaire form for data collection and results revealed that both the United Arab Emirates and Egypt had acquired the status of an environmental tourist destination, which affected the mental image of tourists whose their destination selection decision is affected by the environmental practices in the two destination, unlike Algeria, which witnessed some weak practices that affected the tourists’ image of the Algerian tourist destination. 

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