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The Effect of COVID-19 on the Domestic Tourists' Attitudes: A Comparative Study between Egypt and Jordan

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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The COVID 19 pandemic heavily deteriorated the tourism and hospitality industries worldwide. New Norms were set. In reality, extra travel barriers were made, which made a critical situation. In these critical circumstances, fingers pointed to domestic tourism as an urgent solution to help in surviving the tourism and hospitality industries. This highlighted the importance of this research, as it investigated local tourists' attitudes regarding the tourism and hospitality industries' activities in Egypt and Jordan. This study aimed to develop a comparative case study between Egyptian and Jordanian travellers to help in identifying the domestic tourists' preferences to figure hospitality and tourism post COVID-19 world. An online survey was developed and distributed via social media and travel agent websites to achieve the study purpose. The Means, standard deviation, and sample t-test were used in the analysis. The findings asserted that the COVID 19 pandemic has significant impacts on the tourists' attitudes in the tourism and hospitality industries' activities and highlighted the differences and similarities between the domestic Egyptian and Jordanian tourists. Moreover, the research outcomes and managerial implications presented new ideas and priorities for travel agencies and tour operators in the era of post COVID-19 world. 

DOI

10.21608/jaauth.2021.66218.1146

Keywords

the Covid 19 Pandemic, Hospitality Industry, Tourism Industry, tourist attitudes, Egypt, Jordon

Authors

First Name

Yousery

Last Name

Elsayed

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Affiliation

Hotel Management Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, College of Business, Umm Al Qura University

Email

yousrynabil@yahoo.com

City

Makkah Almukarammah

Orcid

0000-0002-4385-4896

First Name

Abuelhassan

Last Name

Abuelhassan

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Affiliation

Faculty of Hospitality and Tourism, Lincoln University College, Selangor, Malaysia

Email

abuelhassanelshazly1980@gmail.com

City

Petaling Jaya

Orcid

0000-0003-3875-7490

First Name

Sawsan

Last Name

Khreis

MiddleName

Haider

Affiliation

Travel and tourism department,Faculty of Tourism and hotel management,Yarmouk University,Irbid,Jordan.

Email

sawsan.k@yu.edu.jo

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Irbid

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20

Article Issue

2

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23822

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2021-03-04

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2021-06-01

Page Start

273

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286

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1687-1863

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2682-4612

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997

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Journal of Association of Arab Universities for Tourism and Hospitality

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https://jaauth.journals.ekb.eg/

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The Effect of COVID-19 on the Domestic Tourists' Attitudes: A Comparative Study between Egypt and Jordan

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22 Jan 2023