Astronomy Tourism in Egypt: A New Trend-Ancient Origin

The Role of Astronomy Tourism in Promoting Egypt

“…This means that the respondents agreed to the statement. This finding agrees with Abdelhakim et al (2022) who stated that Egypt's sky is unique due to the presence of many places far from the light pollution of the large cities, which are main attraction areas. Also, according to Najafabadi (2012) and Kunjaya et al (2019) Egypt has the potential to attract the care of tourism participants as it has terrestrial astronomy locations includes ancient Egyptian Archeoastronomy locations, besides the various astronomical Observatories.…”

“…It needs marketing efforts and facilities to be provided in such areas. This finding agreed with Abdelhakim et al (2022) who stated that, astronomy tourism is active in Egypt, but yet it should gain more attention from stakeholders to be promoted and developed as a new trend in Egypt. Regarding the statement "Did you want to travel to another country to observe such a phenomenon in the sky" The mean value was 1.56.…”

“…You can experience a several kinds of stargazing in Nuweiba while enjoying nature, peace, and tranquilly as well as the beach and its white sand. Far away from the noise and rush of the city, there is an Egyptian oasis which is Siwa Oasis unlike any other with a lot of activities like riding a bike, climbing mountains, camping in the desert, or gazing at the stars at night (EPICtravelTV, 2019;Betz, 2021;Abdelhakim et al, 2022).…”