The Contribution of the Egyptian Youth Hostels Association in Developing Intercultural Understanding: A Case study of IOU Respect as an International Exchange Programme | ||||
| International Academic Journal Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management | ||||
| Article 10, Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2015, Page 181-200 PDF (294.04 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijaf.2015.95621 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Waleed Radwan | ||||
| Department of Tourism Studies, Faculty of Tourism and Hotel Management, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| people to participate in international exchange programmes. One of its initiatives is the IOU Respect Programme (I Owe You Respect), which seeks to develop friendship, peace and respect between participants from some Islamic countries (Egypt, Tunisia, and Lebanon) and some western countries (United States, France, and Germany) through twoweek residential sessions hosted in one of the programme's participating countries. Data collection involved: a questionnaire survey of applicants to the programme; in-depth interviews with representatives of the Egyptian Youth Hostels Association (EYHA); internet survey of participants who had participated in the programme before; participant observation in the IOU Respect programme held in Egypt in 2008, at the Ismailia Youth Hostel. The paper recommends that the marketing techniques used by the EYHA need improvement as the Egyptian applicants were exclusively from Cairo due to poor marketing across the rest of Egypt. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Youth Hostels; IOU Respect Programme; Hostelling International | ||||
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