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The Role of Metaverse Tourism and Hospitality Online in Egypt

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Information Technology (IT) became a special aspects of human been. The Internet occupy a major part of our time that started since the 1990s. One of the latest development applications is virtual reality (VR). There are new directions of tourism business that are using this VR technology to have a positive impact of revenue. It does not mean the end of traditional tourism.
This paper will focus on advantages and disadvantages of virtual environment in Tourism and Hospitality industry in Egypt.  
The research purpose is achieved through several interviews of hotel managers, tourism agency managers, experts and specialists in tourism ministry. The interviews collected data from a questionnaire of 122 managers, experts in a sample of 10 hotels as well as 10 tourism companies in Egypt.
The study point to the significance of Virtual Reality (VR) and its impact on tourism. These points to a new methodology and experience of promoting tourism and hospitality business that allow users to visit the desired places without traditional travel and physical move. This is conspired a new gain of experience.
The study research agenda concretes several topics that explain the significance of VR in hospitality and tourism industry as follows:

The definition of Virtual Reality and Virtual Tourism
The Basics of Virtual Tourism
Types of Virtual Reality
Characteristics of Metaverse
The advantages and disadvantages
Challenges of Metaverse
The hypotheses
The Outcomes

The purpose of the research is to explain the development of the Metaverse. Finally, by covered above mentioned study topics, the Metaverse development highlighted the future trends in the in hospitality and tourism especially in Egypt.  In order to sustain this type of business as well as archive important revenue and cope with the international trends.

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10.21608/hiss.2023.253785

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Virtual reality, tourism and hospitality, Metaverse, Sustainability

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هاني

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عاطف قزمال

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السياحة والفنادق

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صباح

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محمد محمود

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السياحة والفنادق

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رضا مختار

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السياحة والفنادق

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3

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2

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32163

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2023-01-01

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2022-08-09

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2023-01-01

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587

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612

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2786-0256

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2786-0264

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مجلة المعهد العالي للدراسات النوعية

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The Role of Metaverse Tourism and Hospitality Online in Egypt

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23 Jan 2023