Question 1: After researching on several websites, I am able to conclude that tourism operators are offering heavy discounts to attract more tourists. Without a doubt one can say that the actual prices for accommodations, transportation, and food are cheaper than the prices from 2010. Moreover, tourism entrepreneurs have to after these discounts, because the number of tourists decreased by millions after their civil war. For example, 5 stars hotels are offering rooms for $50 dollars in double occupancy rooms. The most expensive spas and resorts are offering a nice suite for $100 dollars. In general the prices are about 50% of what they were before the war, the military coupe, and the reconstruction crisis. As appreciated in the video, The …show more content…
However, according to recent reports despite the fact that its economy and politics are still turbulent, some tourists began to walk and shop in the not long ago deserted markets. Some signs of improvement are showing, in the form of more confident tourists who started to come back to this country. According to Egypt’s bank, the influx of income and tourists improved during the last quarter of 2013. Unfortunately, Egypt is still far away from being, one of the most popular destinations in the world. However, as we observed in this video tourist operators are still complaining that they get a minimal income, some changed their ways of living with precarious results. Another proof of Stagnation is that some local residents show antagonism and began to mistreat and verbally abuse, tricking, even threatened visitors (Irridex: Effects of mass tourism, George Doxey, page 318) Happily this year, as observed in video Amazing Egypt, some recovery is already executed. This recovery is basically the result of the Ministry of tourism campaign, which promotes Egypt worldwide, as a deliverable travel destination. For now, some tourists are coming back to the Sharm el Sheikh Area, which has extra security and not, or minimal violence. The “We miss you” and “Egypt is close,” campaigns have proven to be effective attracting …show more content…
Based on the video, the Nile and other local beaches, as well the streets are polluted with trash. In addition, the providers who practically sequester, attack, or force tourists to hire them need to reeducate themselves about effective ways to sell their products or services. For this reason, Egypt’s government should establish a zero tolerance policy for these kinds of unethical operators. These terrible providers will have to modify their attitude and unethical approach right now. Their technique is unprofessional and scares people, who became the word or mouth and send their comments to social media. Therefore, less people want to come to this
Previously listed were the impacts tourism could potentially instill, however, the case studies by Schuler (1999) and Dyer (2003) investigated the actual impacts from pro-poor tourism in the Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park. The positive impacts that were found at the Park are: the revival of culture from the Djabugay peoples, employment opportunities, working with the other local community members, and increased cross-cultural understanding via interaction between the peoples and tourists. The revival of Djabugay cultural has been expressed through music and dance. Djabugay musicians such as Bart Willoughby, Nokturnl, Josh Thomas, and in particular, Gudju Gudju, have released recordings in the language. Gudju Gudju's album, Follow One Track,
What was once a great and powerful empire has started to become a civil war zone. They created the Pyramids and one of the first recorded libraries. While Egypt has had hard times in the past, they recovered from them, the civil war that they are in now will be harder to recover from once it’s over. With war and economic problems causing people to die frequently due to either starvation or gunfire, Egypt struggles to survive and bounce back from their issues. Egypt continues to deal with the fighting and their future doesn’t look bright for them.
The Temple of Hatshepsut is still an important piece of Egyptian architecture today because it helps the citizens today remember their country's history. The temple is also a very popular tour spot when travelling to Egypt. Although the temple has tourists that come the number of them has dropped ever since the terrorist attack there in 1997. However last year Egypt had 14.7 million tourists last year making 11 billion in revenue. In conclusion the amount of tourism in Egypt has definitely decreased since many issues with Egyptian rulers, and multiple terrorist attacks.
Egypt has a lot of interesting history for us along with many fascinating natural resources and culture. In Egypt’s history there have been many changes along with new pharaohs. The pyramids were built long ago in their history but still stand today. The Nile River is a special part in Egypt not just for the water but also transportation, fishing, and using the mud from the river to make things. The culture in Egypt is exciting. They had many artists, musicians, and entertainers who would perform for parties. There is much we can learn from in Egypt’s history and its culture, and this is just the beginning for all of the exciting and interesting things in Egypt.
The 20th century has seen the creation and rapid expansion of the tourism industry, fuelled by our ability to travel faster and more conveniently to remote places on the planet. Tourism describes a huge variety of different activities, all falling under the banner of people traveling for pleasure. I think of tourists as falling into two main categories, those people who travel to find somewhere to relax, and those who travel to experience new cultures. The first category has less direct effect on the spread of tourism, as these people prefer to travel to places in developed countries, where they can relax in comfort. The second category likes to travel to experience new cultures and environments without necessarily having a relaxing trip. It is these people who are constantly pushing the tourist industry into new areas. Once the tourist industry realizes a region is becoming popular with adventurous tourists, big resort hotels appear, and the wild is tamed for the benefit of the tourist who likes to feel adventurous without having to endure the hardship of dingy, cockroach-ridden hotels. The location is now ruined for the adventurous tourist. These westernized resorts can be found all over the world, giving a highly sanitized version of the local culture. This leaves the adventurers to go in search of a new location to visit, an even more remote and exotic place is visited, and so the cycle continues until we will have a resort hotel next to every lake, mountain, forest and beach on the planet.
When asked to think of an ancient society what first comes to mind? My guess is Egypt, along with its unbelievable pyramids, its mysterious mummies, its blazing hot climate and its ever so powerful pharaohs. As you realize that this is exactly what you would have thought of, you wonder why. The reason is because Egypt is much better, and more interesting than all other past societies. Not just because of the fascination we all share about Egypt's fictitious tales, but also because of its agriculture, art, religion, women's rights, burial methods, its quantiful mentions in the Bible and its success as a society. These all serve a different purpose but together are what frankly made Egypt, Egypt, a very great past
There is an abuse of consumer rights and safety in Egypt that affected the consumer in a bad way rather than protecting him. There is consumer laws violence that continued for decades in the Egyptian system and it is really clear in the healthcare, education ,food and tourism sectors. Although there are regulations that should protect the consumer, there are still unethical and corrupted practices that take place in all the sectors that should provide the best service for the Egyptian consumer. The consumer rights to safety are vanishing that the consumer health is not protected by anything in the country. Also, the right of the consumer to high quality education is not available in the country. Moreover, the consumer has the right to be heard but no one hears the complaints of the consumer to get back on the right tack. The consumer has the right to a healthy environment but the environment is polluted and causes many health issues. The food and water are not healthy and can cause chronic diseases to the consumer. In the healthcare sector, the public healthcare system is against humanity and the consumer safety laws in Egypt that it has taken away the lives of many patients due to its miserable conditions. In the education sector, the government gave a blind eye to the education problems so it has been descending due to the unbearable public education conditions. In the food sector, the consumer safety laws are not put into consideration that the health of the consumer is in danger due to the unhealthy food and contaminated water. The last sector is the tourism sector which is lagging due to the lack of the government incentives and good strategic planning.
Egypt is one of the most beautiful countries. It is the oldest tourist destination on earth. Nowadays, tourism is one of the most important industries and it is the leader in providing new jobs to decrease the unemployment rate. It involves a range of organizations, businesses and government agencies working together complementary to each other. After January 25th, the rates of tourism has decreased in Egypt due to many reasons. It has been proven that tourist’s number has fallen from 14 million in 2010 to 10.2 million in 2013. According to (Tourism in Egypt: A slow recovery- CNN.com) “The world Economic Forum has just declared Egypt one of the most dangerous places on earth for tourists. The report puts Egypt above Yemen and Pakistan in terms of risks for visitors”. Moreover, there are many causes which result in decreasing rates of tourism such as political instability, presence of terrorism and absence of security. This decrease has effect the economic crisis negatively and also the employees who are involved in this field have almost stopped working because the number of tourists has been decreased in a horrible way.
This attracts not only disaster tourists, but also volunteer tourists, willing to help with the reconstructions and recovery process and also academics and students doing researches about the consequences of disaster and about the disaster tourism itself.
He write “Adventure Tourists – that’s those young people who come with back packs, take selfies all over the place, and talk loudly about how ‘awesome’ they are in the bar, isn’t it? “. (Local Council Member: 1). Author of this reasoning show unknowingness of a basic idea of who is the Adventure Tourist. Research conducted in 2014 by The Adventure Tourism Trade Association, demonstrate that global average age of Adventure Tourism customer is 48. (ATTA, Industry Snapshot) This information prove that not only young people are adventure tourist, furthermore they are the minority. Next words of Local Council Member who suggest that this kind of tourist don’t have a jobs, are again the falsehood. According to ATTA, the average global trip price per day is 477 US Dollars, this statistic indicates that customers of this niche of tourism definitely have a financial resources to pay for their active holidays. There is no research about employment of average adventure tourist, but it can be assumed that most of them earn their money at some kind of work. Local Council Member said that in his opinion this part of industry not bringing much money in. As stated in UNWTOs “Global Report on Adventure Tourism” in comparison, on a global level, non-adventure tourists spend about 500 US Dollars per person per holiday, this is about 40% less than the amount spent by adventure tourists. What is more in mass tourism, approximately four-fifths of the revenue from a trip goes to airlines, hotels and other international companies. In contrast, in adventure tourism, quarter of the revenue goes to local communities. This means that this niche brings more money than ordinary kind of tourism and is more beneficial to local
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
Tourism is an important and intricate element to society. It affects economical, social, cultural and environmental elements. Tourism can be argued to have a negative impact on the environment and decrease our already depleting resources, but tourism can also be argued to be a major contributor to strengthening economies, spread cultural traditions and improve people’s lives. Tourism
Tourism is a typical activity of fashion that the public participate widely and it has grown in importance over recorded human history. Innumerable articles refer tourism as “the world’s largest industry”; policy-makers, analysts, and scholars often speak of the size of the tourism compared to that of other industries (Smith 2004: 26). These series of misleading statement, together with the mass media’s reports (out of context), make the idea that tourism is a single large industry branded into many people’s minds. However, in this essay I will demonstrate that it is a simplistic and misleading idea, which should be replaced by the plural term, “tourism industries”. Moreover, tourism is not the world’s largest industry, but largest service sector.
Sri Lanka had started modern commercial tourism in the year 1960. According to the figure 1.1 it can be clearly seen that, in generally there were considerable increments of arrivals in every year. However, terrorist attacks and civil war made great effect for the reduction of the arrivals in the period 1983 to 2009. Apart from that the natural disaster Tsunami in year 2004 and global economic crisis in 2008 also made major impact for reduction of the arrivals. With the end of 26 years of civil war in the year 2009, the country became popular as a safe tourist destination and it shows remarkable growth of arrivals. Tourist arrivals have surged to a new limit of over 2 million (2,050,832) arrivals in 2016, which is an increase of 14.0 per cent over last year 1,798,380 arrivals (SLTDA,
At the present time, one of the inseparable parts of the economic growth is considered as tourism industry. Commonly, tourism is the movement of people to other places for business or leisure purposes as well as covers their activities. Holloway and Humphreys defines that the places where tourists come and spend their money are called as “tourist destinations” in other words “receiving areas”. Many countries have been improving tourism to overcome economic difficulties since it is growing fast. The industry activities have been demonstrated a general positive trend in the economy and it has already become the inherent part of economic development. In host countries, tourism has led to such positive consequences as the improved infrastructure,