The Impact of Arab Spring on Tourism Sector in Jordan

Abstract

This study aims the Arab Spring impact  on the Jordanian tourism.  Also, its community is a total of 160 tourist and travel offices of class A in Amman. Therefore, the researcher was distributed questionnaire to each office, which is contacted 37 of them and 26 of these offices responded. Thus, the data were analyzed based on descriptive statistics such as averages, standard deviations and analytical statistics, such as the simple linear regression test(Alhroot, 2018).The results of the study showed that there is a significant effect of the Arab Spring on the tourism sector of Jordan  like: its movement, income and hotel work. But no impact of the Arab Spring on the number of workers, which is largely consistent with the statistical reports published by the Ministry of the Jordanian arena (Badado,2016).Nevertheless, this study can apply on other sectors that conducting further studies related to the Arab Spring and its impact on social, economic and political indicators at all levels. Consequently, there is more results that would raise the level of readiness for such conditions(Kramer, 2019).

Keywords: Arab spring, tourism, descriptive statistics, travel agency, Jordan

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/11-26-01

Publication date:September 30^th 2019