EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABES, TRAVEL EXPERIENCE AND THE PROBABIIITY TO RETURN TO DESTINTATION THE CASE OF FRENCH TOURISTS IN EGYPT

Abstract

This exploratory study was conducted in order to investigate the impact of sociodemographic variables “age, sex, familial situation, qualification, profession, income per capita”, travel characteristics and levels of satisfaction concerning the quality of tourist services offered to French travellers to Egypt, the prices and security in Egypt on the probability to return to Egypt in the future in period of chocks represented in the periods following the Sharm el-Sheikh attacks, Dahab attacks and during the aviant flu epidemic crisis which hit Egypt. This probability was estimated using the probit model.