The Impact Of Tourism In Saudi Arabia

Tourism has become a commercial business, which has obvious benefits to the said economy, the environment and society. Often, the positive economic impacts persuade governments, companies and individuals to get involved with the development of tourism. Tourism creates jobs, both

Tourism plays a significant role in sustainable development and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Tourism Organization (WTO) wish to encourage all countries to make sure that their policies and actions for its development and management fully embrace the principles of sustainability. Likewise, policies to promote sustainable development should take full account of the opportunities offered by tourism. Various international conventions and declarations have put forward principles and guidelines for sustainable tourism and the importance of tourism and its sustainability was underlined at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development. Many countries declare that they are pursuing, or wish to pursue, policies for ‘sustainable tourism’. Despite this interest, there remains a degree of uncertainty over the scope and priorities for making tourism more sustainable and only partial appreciation of how to put this into practice (Making Tourism More Sustainable, 2005).

Income is one of the most important factors affecting on residents’ perceptions and attitudes toward tourism. It is viewed as positive in many studies. For example, one study found that respondents earning yearly

The reason for people wanting to visit Saudi Arabia is the faith of the domestic tourists, who have a spiritual attachment to the deity/ destination in line with their religious, also foreign tourists, people whom belong to a different religion, region or country, wanting a spiritual experience different from their own, despite the ethical values being delivered remain the same.

This paper explores a great number of academic research journals and databases on the impact that the tourism industry has on the countries in the Caribbean. Tourism impacts the Caribbean in three different sections. Tourism has a social impact that allows for increases in revenue, jobs, and service for the people living there. Tourism’s cultural impact allows the history and heritage of the Caribbean to be acknowledged and practiced not only here but around the world as tourists come and go. Tourism’s environmental impact effects the natural and geographical diversity that can only be found in these countries. Although tourism brings about many advantages in all three categories, there are still negatives attributes that appear from tourism that must be handled properly to maintain a successful industry. This paper examines 12 different research journals that suggest all of the positives and negatives of tourism in the Caribbean and how they can effect not only the tourism industry but the area in which they are practiced.

Another aspect of impact of tourism on a country’s economy is that it facilitates the expansion of the market of goods and services. Foreigners come to a country willing to spend money on different goods and services, thus increasing the amounts of sales. This is a great chance for producers and service providers to receive larger profits. This concerns not only hoteliers, tour operators, and souvenir shops owners. Public transportation, retail stores of different kind, restaurants, and cafes benefit from international tourism. Obviously, if these industries are in demand, businesses will be expanding. On the one hand, it means that more money is paid to the budget. On the other hand, profits generated by the owners are spent inside the country, affecting almost all the fields of the

For a variety of reasons, host communities often are the weaker party in interactions with their guests and service providers, leveraging any influence they might have. These influences are not always apparent, as they are difficult to measure, depend on value judgements and are often indirect or hard to identify. Impacts arise when tourism brings changes in value systems or behaviour, threatening indigenous identity. Changes often occur in community structure, family relationships, collective traditional life styles, ceremonies and morality. But tourism can also generate positive impacts as it can serve as a supportive force for peace, foster pride in cultural traditions and help avoid urban relocation by creating local jobs. Socio-cultural impacts are ambiguous: the same objectively described impacts are seen as beneficial by some groups and as negative by

The report has consisted of an analysis of tourism in UAE to compare with tourism in Oman and the analysis was based on information gathered from a variety of sources: website of each countries, books and from interviews with some tourists. The analysis has led to conclude that, despite the strong tourism fundamentals in the Sultanate compared to the UAE, it suffers from

This report will briefly raise awareness of what the Arab Spring therefore to be able to have a much better understanding on how it affected tourism and still has a big effect. A country’s tourism can also be affected by neighbor countries contemporary issues, so it is essential to be aware of what

Tourism has been a major contributor to the economic, social and human development of Morocco. Its social and economic impacts such as the reduction of unemployment and poverty are clearly evident in today’s society. With a growth of 6.0% in its tourism compared to the world average growth rate of 1.6%, the success of the Moroccan tourism sector is without any doubts astonishing. In fact, tourism has become one of the most important sectors for Morocco. It is said that the reasons behind this success are mainly due to the development and implementation of new policies under the reign of the monarch, King Mohammed IV, and the development of certain industries such as agriculture and textile. In this paper, however, I argue that there are other factors behind Morocco’s rapid development in the tourism industry that are ignored due to social and religious reasons. In order to demonstrate this point, I will examine the predominance of sex tourism and prostitution in Morocco and how they play a major role in the development and success of tourism. Finally, I contend that the tourism sector is not sustainable as its social and economic impacts have already started affecting negatively the social life of the Moroccan population. Unless an alternative of sustainable tourism is put in place, this growth in the tourism industry will disappear leading to unprecedented and unwanted consequences.

The Travel and Tourism industry is still one of the largest single businesses in world commerce and its importance is widely recognized. The tourism industry is now one of the largest sectors earning foreign exchange. In the face of many benefits, many countries have started assigning due weight age to the tourism industry in their national development agenda. Tourism is an industry that operates on a massively broad scale: it embraces activities ranging from the smallest sea-side hotel; to air-lines, multi-national hotel chains and major international tour operators. Originally, non-traditional industries such as tourism emerged as a solution to strike a balance between ecology and industry

This study is taking a quantitative approach contain analysis and for that selecting three representative newspapers and journalists in the Saudi Arabia, which are Al Riyadh, Sabq, Asharq Al‑Awsat and Twitter accounts of three journalists on Twitter to collect the required data. Moreover, this method is more suitable because it is creating an observation on the news posted by the newspapers that we have selected. Furthermore, it is important to note down that how journalists are publishing the breaking news or retweet the breaking news from newspapers or other journalists. From a review of previous research shows that many of the researchers relied on the content analysis because it gives accurate results through observation and monitoring of the variables that are used in the research questions. Content analysis will be used instead of a survey, longitudinal analysis, or a secondary analysis because it is difficult to get accurate results from of previous research. Additionally, Saudi Arabia is a new area in new media and there is not much of the previous research in this area about the new media in Saudi Arabia. The questionnaire may be suitable for this study, but perhaps does not respond to the questionnaire will be the right way, because most of the people do not consider survey as an important thing and they do not answer it clearly. So, as I pointed out earlier content analysis is the best for this study.

Sustainable tourism is stated to be tourism development that "avoids damage to the environment, economy and cultures of the locations where it takes place. The aim of sustainable tourism is to ensure that development is a positive experience for local people; tourism companies; and tourists themselves." (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) The tourism industry is such that produces "significant impacts on natural resources, consumption patterns, pollution and social systems." (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012) The facts on tourism include that 980 million individuals travel internationally (2011 data) and that number is estimated to reach 1.5 trillion by 2020. Travel and tourism is representative of 10% of the total global Gross Domestic Product (GD), which is inclusive of other related tourism businesses such as catering and cleaning. Finally, there are approximately 25 million individuals across 52 countries that have been displaced by violence, persecution and other disasters all of which affects tourism receipts in every country throughout the world. (The London School of Economics and Political Science, 2012, paraphrased) Sustainable tourism is stated to be about ""¦re-focusing and adapting. A balance must be found between limits and usage so that continuous changing, monitoring and planning ensure that tourism can be managed. This requires thinking long-term (10, 20+ years) and

For education factor, (40) of Egyptian respondents whose have complaints to their travel agency, around (50.6%) have a Bachelor degree, moreover, approx. (89%) of them have a bachelor, post graduate, Master or PhD degree. This is consistent with Butelli (2007) saying that higher education positively related to complaining not only in the Western world but also in developing countries. But, this doesn’t appear clearly in Saudi responses, (32) of Saudi respondents whose have complaints to their travel agency, around (34.4%) have a Bachelor degree, while the rest are distributed convergence, (17.2%) still studying, (19.4%) secondary or diploma, (16.1%) post graduate and (13%) for master or PhD degree. This can be explained by the nature of Saudi society as a source for outbound tourism, and its high economic level provide the opportunity for

Tourism development has major impacts on local residents and their participation in tourism development plays a vital role in its success. Although, there is substantial literature related to local residents’ participation in tourism development, it mainly focuses on developed countries or mature tourism destinations in developing countries. There is lack of literature on local residents’ participation in developing countries, especially where tourism development is new. Decision-makers and planners often, in the developing countries where tourism development is new, tend to involve public and private sectors without a full consideration of local residents’ participation in tourism development. This research explores local residents ' participation in tourism development in South Sinai in Egypt.