Spatial analysis of camping and hunting tourism

Nageab, Walaa; جمعة, شيماء خليل سالم

doi:10.21608/qarts.2024.305282.2013

Spatial analysis of camping and hunting tourism "in the Arab Republic of Egypt" A study in the geography of tourism

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of Geography - Faculty of Arts - Assiut University - Assiut - Egypt

² مدرس الجغرافيا الاقتصادية بقسم الجغرافيا - كلية البنات للاداب والعلوم والتربية - جامعة عين شمس

10.21608/qarts.2024.305282.2013

Abstract

The current study seeks to study the spatial analysis of camping and hunting tourism in the Arab Republic of Egypt, where camping tourism is characterized by providing a group of tours and safari trips dedicated to enjoying the wildlife scenery in the camping tourism areas, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the objective approach was used - the behavioral approach and the spatial analysis method, and the statistical method - the cartographic method and the field study were used by conducting a questionnaire with camp visitors, and the researchers distributed (650) questionnaire form to People interested in fishing between amateurs and traders, and the number of correct questionnaires (600) questionnaire.
The study reached several results, the most important of which is that South Sinai Governorate included a third of the tourist camps in Egypt by 33.3%, followed by Fayoum Governorate by 20.8% of the total tourist camps in Egypt, and the actual central phenomenon of tourist camps in Ain Sealine camp in Fayoum Governorate was the center of Senouras, and the nearest camp in distribution to Cairo Governorate with a distance of about 102.6 km, while the default average center is located in Minya Governorate, about 143.5 km from the phenomenon. The value of the coefficient of the neighbor closest to the camps was about 0.58, and this indicates that the pattern of geographical distribution in Egypt tends to a close pattern heading towards randomness.
There are also many social and economic characteristics of visitors to camping tourism areas in Egypt type, including that males come in the first place by 91.5% of the total sample of camping tourism areas in Egypt, and the characteristics of the camping tourism trip for visitors to camping tourism areas in Egypt by the goal of the tourist trip, including fishing sports, came in first place by 69.1% of the total.

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