Curative tourism development in Egypt : case of Al-Wadi Al-Jadid governorate

Abstract EN

Curative tourism is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors of the international tourism industry, due to the increasing stress from life and work; it has become an important issue for modern people to release stress and pursuit health in everyday life and leisure time.

Medical Tourism Association stated that health tourism has a constant annual increase of 20% with a considerable demand potential, this has boosted the development of health and well-being tourism activities all over the world.

Having al-Wadi al-Jadid Governorate as a case study, which was pointed out as one of the important strategic tourism development site in Egypt, this paper aims to examine the development for potential of Curative Tourism in al-Wadi al-Jadid Governorate by adopting a quantitative and a qualitative research method to achieve the research objectives.