Interdependence between the tourism sector and other economic sectors: applying to hotels and restaurants

Abstract EN

Tourist industry presents its products at the form of a great tourist service, which consists of transportation, accommodation, feeding, visits and entertainment, (Barakat, 1998).

tourist industry can provides that great service through economic entanglement relationships between organizations which present tourist service and sectors that provide the components that make up this service, (Abd-Alwahab, 1998).

the number of main and secondary sectors that contribute to the manufacture of the tourist product exceeds 140 sectors, (Alhory and Aldabagh, 2000).

tourist industry depends more on the products of other sectors when they have high quality, suitable price and enough quantity to present tourist industry in a competitive way through the multiple and tourist markets.

this study aims at description of the interdependence relationships for the tourism sectors applying to hotels and restaurants with other economic sectors in the national economy.

that’s why hotels and restaurants sector is the one which is approved in the economic balance tables in the economic plans in the country.

concerning the economic effects of tourist companies and entertainment places, they can be attributed to money, trade and business sectors, (Tohamy, 2012).

this study supposes that interdependence relationships in tourist industry are strong with the local industries.

the local industries also are concerned with meeting the needs of the tourism industry.

the study was applied by using a randomly sample method on a group of employees in hotel establishments who are responsible for the purchases the study community is represented in the (1:5) star hotels whose number reached twenty hotels in both Cairo and Giza.

the number of accepted forms was (18) forms by 90 percent and invalid form were excluded.

a number of components were identified through interviews with procurement officials, with 16 components as one of the most reliable components of restaurants and hotels.

the study concluded that there are deficiencies in the economic relationships of the tourism industry with the sectors that feed it, as a result of increased dependence on the import component and the leakage of a large amount of tourism income outside the national economy.