Promoting the Path of Holy Family as an Educational Tour to the Students of Technical Schools for Tourism and Hotels

Document Type : Research Articles

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Tourism studies, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel management, Helwan university

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The educational fieldtrips are conducted for tourism students to provide them self- experiences and to apply their knowledge learned at schools in the real-world. The study determined the level of tourism students' awareness on the educational tour in the holy family path after restoration by The Supreme Council of Antiques. It used descriptive research design with students at the technical school for tourism and hotels(TSTH) (3-5 years system) in Cairo as respondents. Questionnaire was designed to only allow the fully completed forms to be submitted (268 forms were submitted from 1st March 2023 to 30 May 2023).The respondents are aged 19 to 21 years old, female and 5 years school learning system, the majority of students have not visited the Holy Family Route despite studying it theoretically. The students felt problem in the conduct of the holy route as an educational tour it could be lack of money and lack of safety and security particularly in some places towards Upper Egypt. It recommends that the tourism schools administration should conduct awareness sessions for parents of tourism students about the importance of the educational trips and how it will provide new and more learning for their children and try to make these trips affordable so that more tourism students can participate in A marketing campaign is recommended to be addressed by Supreme Council for Tourism, Egyptian Tourism Authority and Ministry of Education and Technical Education for raising up the awareness of the tourism students about the importance of these field trips.

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International Journal of Tourism, Archaeology and Hospitality
Volume 4, Issue 1
January 2024
Pages 290-299

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