Egypt Tourism: Historical Overview, Destination Attractiveness, and Tourism Policies

Egypt Tourism
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Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 1
Historical overview of tourism development...........................................................................1
International tourism visitation............................................................................................ 2
Destination attractiveness................................................................................................... 3
Host community impacts of tourism...................................................................................... 4
Destination development issue analysis..................................................................................5
Tourism policy issue analysis.............................................................................................. 6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................... 7
Reference...................................................................................................................... 8
Introduction

Egypt is probably the oldest civilization in the world, and it has historically emerged from the
Nile Valley around 3100 BC. It is considered one of the oldest tourist spots. Egypt includes
much more than the pyramids and monuments and also the red sea scuba diving, luxury resorts,
hot nightspots and many more. This report includes the destinations which attract tourists to
Egypt and its historical development will be explained. The impact of tourism on host
community will be discussed along with the issues which are occurring because of tourism and
various tourism policies of the tourist destination.
Historical overview of tourism development
Egypt is a destination for tourists and travelers as it is Herodotus in ancient history. Egyptian
tourism is from the early 20th century and from that Egypt is considered safe tourism. There are
many reasons to visit Egypt. Egypt includes the various tourist places like temples, tombs,
deserts, Nile River which are beautiful, historic treasures, and many ancient monuments. The
regularity and richness of the Nile floods each year, combined with the semi-segregation of the
East and West deserts, has allowed the development of one of the great civilizations of the world
(Zamani‐Farahani and Henderson, 2010).
A unified kingdom appeared around 3200 BC. In the next three thousand years, Egypt ruled a
series of dynasties. In 1869, the work of the Suez Canal was completed after that Egypt. Egypt
has become an important world transportation hub, but it is also heavily indebted. In Egypt,
tourists from European countries come for spending time and vacation to inexpensive beaches. It
is considered as the least expensive warm destination which includes the nice resorts at the red
sea coast of Egypt. Tourism in Egypt is considered as mass tourism as they arrange the hotel
spaces at very inexpensive rates. Egypt includes various ancient monuments. The most important
market in Egypt is archeological and cultural tourism. In Egypt, the beach tourism and diving
center tourism impacts a great activity which attracts number of tourists towards the destination.
Egypt includes the ability for importing strategic goods like energy and wheat (Desivilya, 2015).
In Egypt, the famous seven wonders of the ancient world are the Great Pyramids of Giza.it
includes the three pyramids with three rulers which were built over three generations and rulers
Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure. The economy of Egyptians is depended on the tourism of the
year. The biggest sector of tourism includes the old and new attractions for the economy of
Egyptian. Egypt includes the six different tourist sites and it includes Alexandria, Hurghada and

Sharm El Sheikh. It also includes the various activities for guests like sports, nightclubs, golf
courses and casinos which attracts visitors. The historical sites are Aswan, Cairo, and Luxor
(Getz and Page, 2016).
International tourism visitation
There are various tourist destinations in Egypt which the tourists and travelers consider as a
tourist destination. It was recorded that the number of visitors to Egypt in Dec 2018 was
11,345,760 as compared to previous year it was 8,292,426. Travel and tourism in Egypt grew by
16.5%. it is analyzed that tourism is important for the national economy as tourism presents
11.3% of GDP, 40% of the non-commodity exports and 19.3% of foreign currency revenues of
Egypt. The arrivals of international visitors to Egypt were 9.9 million in 2018 and it helped in
generating revenue of USD 7.2 billion (Tohamy and Swinscoe, 2000). The fifth-largest provider
of foreign currency was the travel receipts. It is analyzed that tourism helps in contributing either
directly or indirectly in the GDP was 11.3%.
International night visitors to the destination were 97.3 million from which 83% were from
Europe, from Russia it was 13%, and 30 % were from Western European countries and 12%
were from Eastern European countries. Travelers and tourists from Arab countries were 17%.
The night international visitors to Egypt are over 50 million and 250,000 tourist nights. In 2018,
the total number of visitors is approx.. 11.3 million and it helps in generating 11.4 billion USD. It
is expected that the Egyptian tourism market is expected to remain positive (Shaw, 2003).