Sports Tourism: Application for African Cup of Nations Coverage

Abstract

Egypt is currently facing a tourism crisis that affects in one way or another the Egyptian national income. Therefore, Egypt is trying to encourage tourism and return it again by increasing the types of tourism within it. One of the most important types of tourism in the world and currently popular is sports tourism. Therefore, I aim through this project to create an easy-to-access electronic platform for anyone who is targeting this type of tourism and is looking for its next destination for tourism in Egypt. The motivation of this project is to fill the gap in the Egyptian market and its lack of a unified electronic platform that reflects local sports tourism, Adopts all kinds of sporting events in Egypt. My goal of this project is to make a smart phone application that increases the electronic advertising campaign for sports tourism and allows the tourist to know the most important events and sports tournaments established within Egypt and connects these sporting events to the tourist places by showing the most important tourist and archaeological places Close to this sporting event. And many of the added features of the application which the user of this application can use and rely on, such as the possibility of registration and login using his own social media accounts and give expectations for the upcoming sports games, and also add the user's review and rating of visited places. In addition, display the status of tickets available to the public to be reserved for sporting events and other services needed by the tourist while in Egypt. Such as showing the telecommunications companies located in Egypt with their own outlets and at the same time close to the tourist, all these services provided within the application in order to reach the biggest goal of this project which is to create a so-called 'One Stop Shop'. In order for this application to become the official window for sports tourism in Egypt in the future. This application will be implemented to work on the most popular common operating systems and the most used smartphones by users (Android & iOS) to ensure that it reaches the widest possible segment of users and the target audience of tourists.