Tourism is an important sector for Egypt's economy. Over 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008, providing $11 billion in revenues. Tourism provides significant benefits to Egypt including generating national income, employment, and foreign currency. To further develop tourism, Egypt can build new hotels, improve airports, increase safety, develop tourism sites, and use technology and social media to promote tourism.

1. Tourism
A.AbdElzaher

2. Agenda
• What’s Tourism?
• Who is the Tourist?
• Types of Tourism.
• Tourism in Egypt.
• Benefits of tourism to Egypt
• How to use Technology for Tourism
• How to develop Tourism in Egypt

3. What’s Tourism?
• Tourism is travel for recreational, leisure or business
purposes.

4. Who is the Tourist?
• Tourists as people traveling to and staying in
places outside their usual environment for not more
than one consecutive year for leisure, business and
other purposes.

5. Types of Tourism?
• Cultural Tourism.
• Archaeological Tourism.
• Religious Tourism

6. Types of Tourism?
• Sport Tourism.
• Therapeutic Tourism.
• Maritime Tourism and yachting.
• Coastal Tourism

7. Tourism in Egypt
• Tourism is one of the most important sectors in Egypt's
economy.
• More than 12.8 million tourists visited Egypt in 2008,
providing revenues of nearly $11 billion.

8. Statistics
• In 2000, there were about 5.5 million foreign tourist arrivals.
• with over 3.8 million from Europe, and receipts totaled more than
$4.3 billion.

9. Statistics
• In that year there were 113,611 rooms in hotels and 227,222 beds
with a 73% occupancy rate
• In 2002, the US government estimated the average daily cost of
staying in Cairo to be about $167, around the same as other major
cities in Egypt.

10. Statistics
• More than 9.79 million tourists in 2007.
• Egypt was ranked 58 globally among 124 countries in tourism
competitiveness index.

11. Revenue
• Tourism is one of the most important sectors in
Egypt's economy.
• Tourism in Egypt was a $11.6bn (£7.3bn) industry in
2009.

12. Benefits of tourism to Egypt
• National income.
• Employment.
• Provide foreign currency.

13. How to use Technology for Tourism
• Make sites.
• Make App for Phone.

14. Using Social Network
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+

15. Using Social Network
• Flickr
• YouTube

16. How to develop Tourism in Egypt
• Build New Hotels .
• Improve Airport in Egypt.
• Increase Safety.

17. How to develop Tourism in Egypt
• Respect.
• Develop the Tourism sites