Evaluation Criteria for the Official Web Site of Egyptian Tourism Organization

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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