أثر برنامج للرحلات المتحفية في تنمية الوعي السياحي لأطفال مرحلة الطفولة المبكرة بالمملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract EN

The aim of the research is to identify the tourism awareness of kindergarten children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by designing a program based on virtual museum trips and knowing its effectiveness in developing tourism awareness.

Among children in early childhood, the sample was chosen randomly and their number reached (40) children and girls, and their ages ranged between ( 5 - 6 years.

This group was divided into the experimental and control group, their number was (20) children and girls.

The equality of the two groups was verified in terms of age, gender, intelligence, and the degree of tourism awareness.

And the Pictorial Tourism Awareness Scale for kindergarten children, and used the Wilcoxon test to answer the first and second questions and the Mann Whitney test to answer the third question.

The results showed statistically significant differences between the two dimensional averages of both the experimental and control group in favor of the experimental group in the degree of tourism awareness for kindergarten children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and this indicates the impact of the museum trips program in developing tourism awareness for early childhood children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.