A Study of the Impact of the Corona Crisis on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry and the Egyptian Tourist Destination Experience in Confronting It

Document Type : Original Research

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1 Lecturer, Tourism Studies Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

2 Lecturer, Hotel Management Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt.

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Tourism and hospitality are the world's biggest industries and a focal point of interest for developed and developing countries. It's an essential source of destination countries' income. It is getting increasingly important and necessary for every country to determine the extent of this industry's priority over the rest of other economic sectors. It is expected to remain a lucrative revenue source. Due to the importance of these issues and these significant matters in the tourism and hospitality industries, they are supportive factors for economic growth and the backbone of many economies worldwide. The tourism sector depends more than any other economic activity with an asocial impact on interaction between people. So, the spread of global epidemics significantly affected the tourism industry. For now, tourism is one of the sectors most affected by the coronavirus outbreak emerging from COVID-19. Therefore, this qualitative research aimed to explore the impact of the Corona crisis on the tourism and hospitality industry and the experiment of the Egyptian tourist destination in confronting it. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with responsible employees to analyze their perspectives on the coronavirus crisis. The results of this research indicated that employees overall have a point of view towards confronting this crisis. The results of this study offer employees practical experiments with the Egyptian tourist destination techniques that can help to overcome crises, the impact of the coronavirus crisis on the tourism sector, and other issues of crises discussed where coronavirus is a considerable crisis faced by the tourism industry.

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