Future foresight for the effects of recovery strategies of covid-19 pandemic applied to the Egyptian tourism and hospitality sector

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Although Egypt has adopted some strategies and policies necessary to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic in the tourism and hospitality sector, which had a positive impact in decreasing the effects of the crisis, the followed policies and strategies did not fully achieve the desired goals.

The current study aims at exploring the future foresight for the effects of recovery strategies of COVID-19 pandemic applied to the Egyptian tourism and hospitality sector.

A total of 190 questionnaires were distributed to a convenient sample of academic professors, tourism experts, and governmental officials from Egypt during February 2022 to March 2022.

100 valid samples were collected with a recovery rate of 52.6% .

The study indicates that academics and experts in tourism and hospitality sector in Egypt are supporting to follow the innovation strategy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is important to support modern patterns in tourism and hospitality that go along with the procedures of recovering from the Corona pandemic, such as virtual tourism and green hotels.