Activating the role of charter flights in activating the tourist movement to Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Tourism Studies Department - Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Suez Canal University

2 Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University

Abstract

Air transportation plays an important role in the tourist movement on both world and local levels, as transportation is one of life necessities. Air transportation has two types, the regular and charter. The charter flight transportation is one of the most important tools which a lot of countries such as Greece Spain and Tunisia use to activate the tourist movement. Egypt began to benefit from this type of air transportation which can achieve a lot of tourist flow. Many people observe that Egypt can achieve more benefits if it evaluates the role of charter flights in promoting tourism it had also to solve the problems that race this type of air transportation. These problems can delay its development, but there problems can e solved to increase its role in achieving more growth rates in the tourist traffic to Egypt. The study is mainly concerned with the role of charter flights in promoting tourism and diversifying the Egyptian tourist product to achieve this researcher had to go through many text books, reports periodicals and academic theses. The study includes a special chapter for results and recommendations which proved the importance of charter flights and the ways and means to maximize their role in the promotion of Egyptian tourism