Evaluation Criteria for the Official Web Site of Egyptian Tourism Organization

Refaat, Sameh Ahmed

doi:10.21608/ejth.1999.233731

Evaluation Criteria for the Official Web Site of Egyptian Tourism Organization

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Sameh Ahmed Refaat

Department of Tourism and Hotel Management - College of Tourism and Archeology - King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Department of Tourism Studies - Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Helwan University, Egypt

10.21608/ejth.1999.233731

Abstract

Internet became an integral part of daily habits for increased millions and millions of users every day for online communication and for acquiring information. Majority of world countries have developed their official tourism websites and have implemented official tourism portals to promote their own destinations. This paper depends on reviewing many literatures on evaluation criteria models for website quality in general and in the tourism field particularly, with displaying the official pages of Egyptian tourism organizations including Ministry of Tourism, Egyptian Tourism Authority, Tourism Federation and Tourism Development Authority, aiming to discuss its effectiveness according to a new model of criteria developed in this paper, with displaying some official tourism websites for other countries.

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