THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PERCEPTION OF RISK AND THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS OF TRAVEL OF FRENCH TOURISTS: THE CASE OF 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”, international tourism experience, and tourism experience in Egypt on the decision making process of travel under the effect of the risk factor “terrorist attacks of last April, 2006, in Sinai, Egypt». For this purpose, a two decision making process probabilities have been estimated by the ordinal logit model.