Investment Sport investment Sport tourismSport facilities represented in Developing the infrastructure and establishing more gyms, gymnasiums, and stadiums and marketing them globally, from the most important results that were also reached amending the legislation and laws related to sports investment, as well as Developing a professional system to promote sports tourism programs and various sports activities.
More people are globally becoming attracted to buying and selling products and services via the internet as the Internet is offering a vast opportunity and an easy way to book packages, search for information and get reviews about services through Customer Generated Content (CGC). It is claimed that both suppliers and consumers are working to push the intermediaries out of the value chain; in order to reduce the costs. The Egyptian tourism market is based on the relation between the three main partners in the supply chain: service providers "upstream partners", tourism intermediaries "downstream partners" and customers. Tourism intermediaries, symbolized in tour operators and travel agencies in Egypt, represent the main partners responsible for marketing and distributing the tourism services. Thereupon, it was of great importance to analyze the current and future situation of those intermediaries, especially in the massive changes resulted from the emergence of the e-marketplaces in the Egyptian tourism market. The study aims at answering some research questions in order to decide which scenario will take place for Egyptian tourism intermediaries amidst the new changes: Disintermediation, Re-intermediations or Cybermediation. A qualitative research approach was used to answer the research questions. In-depth interviews with Egyptian Tourism Intermediaries, represented in traditional Travel Agents (TAs) in Egypt, Egyptian Online TAs (OTAs) and Egyptian Facebook Travel Agencies were conducted to explore the effect of the e-marketplaces on their work. The results showed that the Egyptian intermediaries were greatly affected by the emergence of emarketplaces and are taking serious steps to counteract the disintermediation effect to reintermediate in the market. This was accomplished by introducing innovative products, forming alliances, offering niche products and adopting price differentiation strategies. The study also provides recommendations for stakeholders in the tourism industry to help them in persisting within the changes of e-marketplaces.
During the past decade, information technology has significantly changed the way the tourism companies plans, controls and manages operations. For example, the increased use of Web 2.0, has gradually altering the industry structure and developing a whole range of opportunities and threats. Hence, the purpose of this study is to verify the impact of online social networks in raising the number of visitors to referenced websites as well as forecasting the total number of tourism websites visitors and social media referrals to better understand and evaluate the potential importance of this technology using time series analysis. This objective will be achieved through analyzing the pattern of visits to a sample of Egyptian tourism websites and the relationship between the total visits and those having the OSNs as referrals has been measured. The data analyzed in this study were provided from the secondary data generated by Google Analytics (GA). The data collected consisted of the series of total visits of Egyptian websites and the contributions of these visits via social media referrals. The significance of the explanatory variable visits via social media referrals as well as the time period was addressed with a multiple regression. To forecast the total number of visits to the tourism websites the time series analysis approach as a non causal method has been used. The results show that time and social media referrals have a significant influence on the total visits of tourism websites. Moreover, Egyptian tourism businesses should not only consider the presence and interaction on Facebook, Google+ and My space, they should also consider Media sharing platforms such as You Tube and Pinterest.
No doubt, the twenty-fifth of January revolution 2011 and its consequences have negatively affected the total investment especially in the tourism sector in Egypt. Moreover, there are a range of obstacles preventing the increase of tourism investment in Egypt, especially the foreign investment. In line with this concern, the study aims at assessing the tourism investment climate in Egypt after the twenty-fifth of January revolution 2011 and its impact on the flow of foreign investments to Egypt. Consequently this work seeks to identify the impediments to tourism investment in Egypt and how to overcome them, moreover, measure the impact of the revolution of January 2011 on the volume of tourism investments in Egypt to determine the necessary efforts to increase the volume of tourism investments in Egypt; both, foreign and national. To achieve the aim of the study, the researcher distributed 127 questionnaires on expert specialists in tourism and investment sector and received 97 questionnaires. After the collection of the questionnaire lists, the researcher has analyzed all data using the statistical package for social science analysis system SPSS version (18) and the t results reveal that: Media and social media helped in increasing the negative impact of 25 th January revolution on the tourism investment in Egypt, the risk for the tourism investor depends totally on security factor, Investment in the human resources is the most important type of investment to increase the income from tourism, in addition; tourism investment incentives provided by the government are not sufficient to restore the tourism investment flow.
Coopetition is a relatively new concept, a concept that emphasizes the simultaneous competition and cooperation between firms. As Coopetition can be useful to increase competency, as well as gain more benefits with less costs (Saraniemi and Kylanen 2010). Therefore it can be used to improve the tourism industry ability in Egypt to withstand disasters and catastrophes. This study investigates the practice of coopetition strategy in the Egyptian tourism industry, as well as discusses the coexistence of competition and cooperation within tourism companies. It also highlights the benefits of this emergent strategy on tourism business. Structured questionnaires were distributed to explore coopetition within Egyptian tourism companies' key-persons. Data was obtained from 52 small and medium sized businesses operating in Alexandria (Egypt). According to results, SMES that participated in the survey have a positive attitude related to the coopetition strategy. That is, they assess the collaboration with competitors; positively. The study concludes that the surveyed companies apply coopetition within both their functional and strategic levels.
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