الفهرس 
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Abstract
There are many negative impacts of environment on tourism which is represented
in those environmental hazards that could fully eliminate the tourism traffic in a
particular area, or limit the traffic of tourists or affect the future of tourism in this
area, which proves that the environment is one of the most important factors that
constitute the tourism sector. Also this proves that the environment may have
positive or negative effects on tourism sector.
Geomorphology is the science that deals with the forms of the earth’s surface,
whether large forms such as the distribution of dry and water or forms as small as
the bottom of oceans or small forms, such as sand dunes. Geomorphology has
close relation with tourism because the later depends a lot on environment as an
attraction factor, also all geomorphological hazards may have a huge effect on
tourism sector.
The study discusses the problem of geomorphological hazards and its effects on
Egyptian tourism traffic, tourist behaviours and tourism facilities, as well as the
relation between travel decision making “based on geomorphological hazards”
and the Egyptian tourism traffic; in addition to raise attention regarding the
importance of the subject within the Egyptian tourism community. The Study Includes Four Main Chapters
The first three chapters contain the theoretical study. Each of them consists of
many subtitles and several points, while the fourth chapter includes the field
study and ended with the results and recommendations.
First: Theoretical study
Chapter One: This chapter deals with “Geomorphology: Concept and
Application”.
Chapter Two: This chapter concerns with “Geomorphological Hazards in
Egypt”, and addresses the importance of tourism in red sea and different
geomorphological hazards in the region.
Chapter Three: This chapter addressed “Tourist and Tourism Facilities
Behavior”, and deals with The Effect of Geomorphological Hazards on Tourist
and Tourism Facilities Behavior.
Second: Field Study
Chapter Four: This chapter describes the questionnaire form and its design as
well as the process of selecting a random sample and finally state and analyze the
results, also interviews has been made, stated and analyzed. The chapter ends
with overall results and accordingly the researcher recommendations.
The field study was conducted with Egyptian, Arab, and foreigner tourists. A
number of 582 questionnaires have been distributed in different major red sea
cities (El Ain El Sokhana, Hurghada, and Marsa Alam), 100 on Egyptians, 52 on
Arabs, and 430 on foreigners. A number of 520 questionnaires has been analyzed
after excluding the invalid forms, also 7 responsible personnel in resorts at the
above mentioned cities has been interviewed to measure their awareness and
consideration of geomorphological hazards.
The collected data have been classified and tabulated to be thoroughly analyzed
through computer software. The researcher has calculated the necessary
percentages and formed the required repetitive tables to satisfy one of the most
important descriptive statistical techniques in identifying and defining the
research variables and their repetition rates within the drawn sample. The Most Important General Results of the Research are as Follows:
Most of tourists lookup information about the travel destination,
environment and possible geomorphological hazards.
Most tourists care about their safety in remote and isolated places “indirect
geomorphological hazards”.
Most tourists care about a safe appearance of buildings “no cracked walls,
falling paints”.
Tourists almost split in opinion regarding the importance of safe trips
verses its costs.
Tourists warn their friends and family members “potential tourists” and
strongly advise them against visiting places where they face a
geomorphological hazard.
Existing Resorts that faces frequent geomorphological hazards tend to use
temporary solution to overcome the hazards and minimize losses.
Resorts under construction do consider geomorphological hazards and take
relevant necessary precautions, which show a growing awareness of its
importance and effect on the tourism sector.
Arabs and Egyptians tend to consider the geomorphological hazards more
than foreigners do.
The study found out that the effect of geomorphological hazards on travel
decision making differ between Foreigner, Arab and Egyptian.
The Most Important Results of the Field Study are as Follows:
The study found that there is a strong negative correlation between
”geomorphological hazards and travel decision making “, which assure that
the first hypothesis of the study is ”Acceptable”.
The study found that there is a strong positive relation between travel
decision “based on geomorphological hazards” and the Egyptian tourist
traffic to destination facing those hazards, which assured that the second
hypothesis of the study is “Acceptable”.