Cruises are currently regarded internationally as arising tourism activities and the Nile Cruises have become one of the important components of the Egyptian tourism sector. The research is aiming at providing an overall and current profile of the Egyptian Nile Cruises as well as demonstrating the opportunities for, and challenges against the Egyptian Nile Cruises' revitalization. A questionnaire has been distributed among 35 managers of sampled floating hotels to illustrate the latest condition of the Nile Cruises. An interview has also been conducted to explore the opportunities, challenges, and visions for Egyptian Nile Cruises' development. It has been concluded that most of Egyptian Nile Cruises have been negatively affected by the sequences of critical crises that led to work stagnation and a decrease in profitability. Recently, there is an undesirable influence of the COVID-19 outbreak on Nile Cruises since the cruise ship is the first hospitality establishment adversely influenced by epidemics. However, Cruise trips are still a potential tourism field in Egypt as Upper Egypt is a unique tourist destination that surely guarantees tourists' demand. Finally, it is proposed to adopt modern marketing tools to attract new market segmentation and sign protocols with inspection companies to control the health and safety as well as manage the anti-virus infection and protection procedures.
Recently, curricula development is one of the most significant aspects in education reform with special focus on its link with the labor market. The research is addressing this link pertaining to the newly emerged occupations that are considered new trends in the international tourism field and regarded as new potentials in the Egyptian tourism labour market that also needed by employers. This research is aiming at identifying these top priorities new occupations and prepare a formulated diagram for linking them with curricula development in tourism and hotels colleges and high institutes. A pilot study has been done with selected academics and tourism market experts to identify the Egyptian labour market needs for new occupations. The field survey has utilized an interview with 13 authorized persons working in governmental and authorized associations related to tourism industry, as well as a questionnaire with 50 trade people working in the Egyptian tourism market within four tourist destinations: Cairo, Sharm El Sheikh, Luxor, Aswan and Hurghada. The main objectives of interview and questionnaire are to stress on the Egyptian labour market needs acknowledged by the pilot study and consequently identify the new occupations. Field survey's results concluded that there are seven new occupations represent the urgent needs of the labor market in both inbound
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