Attitudes towards reluctance to work in the Egyptian tourism sector

Abstract EN

It was noted recently that there is a clear attitude towards reluctance to work in The Egyptian tourism sector generally.

Actually, there are many reasons that led to this disinclination.

So, this research aims to study beliefs and attitudes of individuals towards reluctance to work in The Egyptian tourism sector.

Also, knowledge the motives and reasons for real attitude to work in this sector and whether there were extremist religious beliefs or employees’ feeling of unsafe to work in this sector recently.

So, the researchers concentrate on three hypotheses as follows: there is a clear attitude towards not working in The Egyptian tourism sector; there is a positive relationship between religious beliefs and work in The Egyptian tourism sector; finally, there is a positive relationship between feeling of unsafe and work in The Egyptian tourism sector.

To achieve the results, the researchers designed attitude scale to measure reluctance to work in The Egyptian tourism sector.

The scale applied on 162 samples distributed on workers in the public and private sectors in Cairo, Minia, Assiut, Fayoum and Sohag governorates, who have/have not previously worked in the tourism and hospitality field.

The study discovered that there are clear attitudes towards reluctance to work in The Egyptian Tourism Sector, personnel feeling unsafe and limit indicators about bad beliefs towards working in tourism field.

So, the study recommends establishing policies and rules to protect tourism employees and increase awareness about the importance of tourism field.