The role of entrepreneurship in creating job opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector

Abstract EN

In order to build a strong sector capable of contributing to the great role assigned to it in the coming period; The need has become more than ever before for educational institutions in the tourism and hospitality sector to pay attention to their entrepreneurial tendencies, and this requires adopting a system of values and behaviors that enhance the dimensions of entrepreneurship.

The research aims to define the role of entrepreneurship in creating job opportunities in the tourism and hospitality sector, and in In order to determine the role of entrepreneurship, the two researchers followed the analytical descriptive approach, where they will rely on a questionnaire addressed to male and female students in the fourth year of the Department of Tourism Studies and the Department of Hospitality Management at the Higher Institutes of Tourism and Hotels in Alexandria.

The researchers also used the statistical program SPSS V.25 to extract the results of descriptive statistics.

To test the study hypotheses: There is a statistically significant effect at the significance level α ≤ 0.05 for the culture and trends of students of higher institutes of tourism and hotels on entrepreneurship.

- There is a statistically significant effect at the significance level α ≤ 0.05 for the obstacles and problems facing entrepreneurship on encouraging investment in the tourism and hotel sector.