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 Volume 8, Issue 2 (February 2021), Pages: 35-43

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: The contribution of tourism revenues to economic development during the terrorism crisis

 Author(s): Hosameldin H. Ismail 1, 2, *

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Administrative Sciences, Community College, Northern Border University, Arar, Saudi Arabia
 2Industrial Relations Division, Workers University, Zagazig, Egypt

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1198-5848

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2021.02.005

 Abstract:

Tourism revenues have contributed to economic development in many countries, whether developed or developing, all over the world. It is one of the sources of foreign cash flows that contribute to increasing the Gross Domestic Product (Henceforth GDP). Tourism also contributes to providing employment opportunities as it is a labor-intensive industry. Egypt has many factors that attract tourists, especially cultural and natural tourism. However, its share in global tourism is still lower than its touristic position, especially during the terrorism crisis that Egypt has suffered from since 2011 and which contributed to the decline in tourism revenues from $ 11.6 billion to $ 3.8 billion during the period (2009-2010: 2014-2015). Because of the importance of tourism revenues, this study aims at identifying the extent to which it contributes to financing the services balance and analyzing its impact on both the services balance and the GDP during the study period (2001-2002: 2016-2017). The present study relied upon the descriptive and analytical methodology. The descriptive methodology describes the contribution of tourism revenues to economic development in light of the terrorism crisis in Egypt. It also identifies the development of the relationship between the tourism sector and terrorism. Regarding the analytical methodology, regression analysis is used to measure the impact of tourism revenues on Egypt's GDP. The descriptive approach was generally adopted with the help of statistical analysis tools to measure the statistical relationship of tourism revenues with the number of tourists, the services balance, and the GDP. The study showed a positive relationship between tourism revenues and GDP. Therefore, it recommends focusing on the development of the industrial and tourism sectors. 

 © 2020 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Tourism, Terrorism, Services balance, Gross domestic product

 Article History: Received 7 June 2020, Received in revised form 5 September 2020, Accepted 11 September 2020

 Acknowledgment:

The author gratefully acknowledges the approval and the support of this research study by the Grant No. com -2018 -3-9-F -8040 from the Deanship of Scientific Research at Northern Border University, Arar, KSA.

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 Conflict of interest: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

 Citation:

  Ismail HH (2021). The contribution of tourism revenues to economic development during the terrorism crisis. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 8(2): 35-43

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