The Effect Of Tourists' Harassment On Tourist Destination Image Of Luxor | ||
| International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management | ||
| Volume 7, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 23-38 PDF (912.39 K) | ||
| Authors | ||
| Rokaya Ramadan1; Sabreen G. Abd Eljalil2; Nesreen Khairy Ali3 | ||
| 1Researcher, Faculty Of Tourism And Hotels, Luxor University, Egypt | ||
| 2Faculty Of Tourism And Hotels, Luxor University, Egypt | ||
| 3Faculty Of Tourism And Hotels, Minia University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Tourist harassment has been substantially ignored despite its potential to adversely affect visitor experience and intentions at a destination. Implicitly, tourist harassment is a behavior that potentially alarms, annoys, torments, or even traumatizes the visitor. Unfortunately, Egypt has gained a reputation for being an unsafe place to go on holidays. This is due to unpleasant holiday experiences resulting from harassment by local vendors who try to nudge and implore tourists to buy using over-aggressive sales tactics. The phenomenon of tourist harassment has been growing in Egypt. This issue affects the behavior of tourists negatively and acts as a challenge to the continued growth of the tourism industry. This study aims to explore the effect of tourists' harassment on the tourist destination image of Luxor. In this study, a mixed-method approach has been used by collecting both qualitative and quantitative data. Interviews have been conducted with tourist experts and questionnaires have been distributed among tourists. In addition, the valid number of tourist questionnaires that have been analyzed is (270) questionnaires. Semi-structured interviews with 9 tourist experts were conducted to identify the various opinions about reasons for the occurrence of tourist harassment. The results show that most tourists are exposed to verbal harassment and exposed to harassment on the streets. Some recommendations have been extracted and directed to the Ministry of Tourism and Tourism police to overcome the phenomenon of tourism harassment in Luxor. | ||
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