{"id":28619,"date":"2019-09-19T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v2.ecomnewsmed.com.ecn-01.ovea.com\/2019\/09\/19\/how-does-mena-rank-in-wef-report-on-tourism\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T09:35:48","slug":"how-does-mena-rank-in-wef-report-on-tourism","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.ecomnewsmed.com\/en\/2019\/09\/19\/how-does-mena-rank-in-wef-report-on-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"How does MENA rank in WEF report on tourism?"},"content":"\n\u00a0\nWEF releases the 2019 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness report\nThe World Economic Forum has released its \u201cTravel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2019\u201d that ranks the most competitive countries in the travel and tourism industry. In the MENA region, Egypt, 65th in the ranking, is the most improved since the release of the last edition of the report in 2017. Israel comes in at the 57th place in this year\u2019s edition.\u00a0\nMENA region remains competitive overall \nThe 2019 \u201cTravel and Tourism Competitiveness Report\u201d lauds the overall price-competitiveness of The Middle East and North Africa region, while underlining the challenges of \u201cterrorism-related safety, security and international openness\u201d. However, it is worth noting that the MENA region has the third-best improvement in average TTCI score since 2017, with UAE the only country to access the top 25% of the international ranking. Also, the Arab Gulf States, together with Israel, have high scores due to their advanced infrastructure and enabling environment. On the other hand, North African countries score well because of their cultural and natural resources.\nEgypt\u2019s main strength is its price-competitiveness \nEgypt has jumped 10 places to rank 65th in the world in terms of tourism competitiveness (74th in 2017), while maintaining its 4th place in Africa. Once the first tourist destination on the African continent (before the Arab Spring), Egypt is gradually regaining its strongest asset: the price competitiveness of its tourism offer ranks it 3rd in the world, with a score that improved to 6, 5 points (for a maximum of 7 points available). The country is also prioritizing the travel and tourism sector (5.2 points), health &amp; hygiene (5.0 points), safety (4.8 points) and environmental sustainability (4.7 points).\nSecurity remains the Achilles heel of Egyptian tourism. In recent years, however, the country has made considerable improvements and has worked relentlessly towards the return of tourists, whose number has increased from 5 million in 2016 to more than 11.35 million visitors in 2018. Egypt is although still very far from the 15 million tourists registered in 2010, the competitiveness gained in recent years should bring the destination even closer to its rank of African leader in tourism. These good performances are mitigated by the low scores recorded for airport infrastructure (3.3 points), tourist services infrastructure (3.2 points), natural resources (3 points) and international openness (2.2 points).\n\u00a0\n\nIsrael: one of the worst countries in terms of price-competitiveness \nWhile having arguably the best tourism spots in the region, namely Tel Aviv","author":42,"featured_media":25927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[5766,5751,5750],"location":[5600,1021],"class_list":["post-28619","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-economic-analysis","tag-economy","tag-news","location-egypt","location-israel"],"short_url":"","have_related_news":null,"chapo":"WEF released its travel and tourism index for the year 2019 that ranks the most competitive countries in the tourism industry. 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