Marketing the pro-poor tourism as a mean of promoting tourism at the times of crises
Noha Saad EL Shaer1, Amira Hassan Abdou2.
Egypt's famous historical heritage sites enabled the Egyptians to carry out simple market promotion for a
long time. Therefore, it is important to develop an appropriate market promotion plan for the cultural
tourism, as a tool to enhance the Egyptian tourism product, especially in the crises times.
During the crises period, the marketing strategies in the tourism destinations are considerably changing. If,
in the beginning, the destination offer important sums to promote the brand's image, with the aim of going
public, during the crises period they focus on tactical and advertising campaigns. Marketing managers' face
many difficulties have to overcome in crises periods but they always must to keep the position of the tourism
destination at the standard that achieve the clients' expectations. Pro-poor tourism can be a new market in
crises periods through creating and rejuvenating some unique products, such as the cultural events and the
traditional handicrafts.
Nubia is very rich of its traditional culture, which appears at the customs and traditions and their traditional
festivals and ceremonies, which are a great source of attraction for the tourist. The most famous traditional
events they have, are the marriage ceremony, celebrating the new born babies (Sobou') and el Tahteeb
festival.
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