The concept of tourism Tourism is the locomotive of economic development, when tourism translates today into numbers, it means approximately 40% of the total services exports, surpassing all services receipts, 19.3% of foreign exchange earnings, and about 7% of GDP directly, which rises to 11.3% if we add indirect contributions in the tourism sector, which is represented in the services accompanying travel and tourism, where the share of the catering and hotel sector in it represents only 3.5%, due to the intertwining of the tourism industry with many productive and service sectors that exceed 70 food industries. Tourism is also considered one of the most important sectors of the state in order to provide job opportunities, as the percentage of those working in it, directly or indirectly, reaches about 12.6% of the total volume of employment in the country. The importance of tourism in the Egyptian national economy Economic growth has a pivotal role in driving the growth wheel in Egypt due to Egypt's strategic location in the Arab world next to a number of the most important oil and natural gas exporting countries, and the most important regional markets that enjoy the diversity of their economies and investments in various industrial and service sectors