Key Factors Influencing Tourism Competitiveness Index - Romania vs. Greece

Measuring Factors of the Egyptian Tourism Destination Image Formation in a new Transitional Era of the so-called Arab Spring Revolutions

“…The findings and results of this research are in accordance with those in prior studies carried out by both Neumayer (2004), Banyai (2009), Kekovic and Markovic (2009), Morakabati (2013), and Mariani, et al, (2014; destination that is constantly in the world media marketing as suffering from conflict, political unrest violence and the fostering of global terrorism must suffer from the point of view of unique image that negatively impact upon tourist arrivals, so that safety and security become of great importance to visitors of the area. The real traffics and gaining suitable tourism market share depends on a blend of discovered elements combination together to formulate a branded IMAGE of Egyptian TDI such as; exclusively tourism attractions and amenities, destination safety, political stability, economic prosperity, quality of tourism services, competitions with other destinations, accessibility, and so on as illustrated and resulted in the eight parts of the model of the current study which agrees theoretically in analysis with tourism competitiveness index's (TCI) sub-indices that are composed of different factors such as country-specific laws and regulations, environmental sustainability, safety and security, health and hygiene, tourism priority, air transport infrastructure, ground transport infrastructure, tourism infrastructure, TCI infrastructure, competitiveness price level, human resources, affinity for travel and tourism (Fântânariu, 2012). The obtained results are in harmony with that detected by Lanquar (2011), Blanke and Chiesa (2011), ASEAN Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report (2012), Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Reports (Blanke and Chiesa, 2013) demonstrated that the evaluation of the safety, security environment and uncontrolled events such as sudden political instability, unsafe and unsecure tourist areas, terrorism, kidnapping, crime, and women's harassment or assault formulating severe bad destination image and reputations that have dropped to the lowest position of all countries covered in the report (140 th ).…”