Yacht tourism - Its Importance and Role in Enhancing Tourism Revenues In Egypt

The Egyptian tourism sector is one of the important sources of national income in foreign currency. Despite the richness of Egyptian destination and tourism products, the various crises that face the Egyptian tourism sector in recent years, caused its deterioration and decrease in the number of tourists thus a decrease in tourism revenues. Consequently, it was necessary to search for new type of tourism to enhance Egyptian tourism revenues. Yacht tourism is one of these new types that could be used to revitalize the Egyptian tourism sector and enhance tourism revenues. So, this research aims to study the importance and components of yacht tourism in Egypt and the opportunities and challenges facing this new type, as well as studying sustainable yacht tourism. This research will also review the positive and negative environmental impacts of yacht tourism in Egypt and will be concluded by formulate the foundations and mechanisms for developing this new type of tourism in Egypt. This study reached numerous results, the most important of which is that despite Egypt’s distinguished tourism potential along its coasts on the Mediterranean and Red Seas, and despite the state’s interest in this new tourism style, Till Now yacht tourism in Egypt has not reached the desired position to enhance Egyptian tourism revenues. To achieve this, some important measures that must be implemented by the state were mentioned, as well as some important proposals and policies for the growth and prosperity of yacht tourism in Egypt.