Curative Tourism Development in Egypt: Case of Al-Wadi Al-Jadid Governorate

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Abstract

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.