ATTITUDES TOWARDS RELUCTANCE TO WORK IN THE EGYPTIAN TOURISM SECTOR

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