Beta
304278

THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE EGYPTIAN TOURISM SECTOR

Article

Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

Economics

Abstract

The Egyptian tourism sector considers as a vital sector in the Egyptian economy. Egypt owns wide range of tourist attractions, such as distinguished natural environments, a huge number of monuments and beautiful worm beaches, which diversify tourism types to include recreational and cultural heritage tourism, environmental, medical, and religious tourism, and other elements. Despite this diversification of tourism type, the Egyptian tourism sector faced several crises that cause a major drawback such as 2011 to 2018 period. the Egyptian tourism sector start to recover in 2019 then the Corona pandemic in 2020 led to a decrease in Egyptian tourism growth by 67% during the year 2020 furthermore other challenges to come as the Russian-Ukrainian war start in February 2022 which will have a significant impact on the decline in Egyptian tourism growth during This year.

The other crisis expected to affect the tourism sector badly is climate change that will cause sea surface raise, temperature increase and loss of the biodiversity and coral reef

Because of the severity of the damage that can by caused by climate changes, the study will investigate the potential impact of climate changes on the Egyptian tourism sector and the importance of cooperation with the international community to maintain environmental quality, reduce the effects of these climate changes and develop the necessary policies and programs to adapt to the effects of these climatic phenomena.

DOI

10.21608/jes.2023.172267.1384

Keywords

tourism development, Climate Change, leisure tourism, Cultural heritage, tourism sector policies

Authors

First Name

Zainab

Last Name

M. N. El-Sady

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Lecturer at the Institute of National Planning

Email

zainab.elsadii@inp.edu.eg

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0002-9961-5333

First Name

Salwa

Last Name

M. Morsy

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Professor at the Institute of National Planning

Email

drsalwamorsy@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

0000-0003-2334-0713

Volume

52

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

42897

Issue Date

2023-01-01

Receive Date

2022-11-15

Publish Date

2023-01-01

Page Start

159

Page End

184

Print ISSN

1110-0826

Online ISSN

2636-3178

Link

https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/article_304278.html

Detail API

https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=304278

Order

304,278

Type

Review Article

Type Code

599

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Environmental Science

Publication Link

https://jes.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE EGYPTIAN TOURISM SECTOR

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Dec 2024