STUDY OF SOCIAL VARIABLES ASSOCIATED WITH AGRICULTURE AND TOURISM COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE ECOLOGY OF PROFESSIONS - SINAI BEDOUIN

The current study aims to identify social characteristics of respondents employed in agriculture and tourism, and identifies the level of social changes resulting from work in both sectors, as well as identify the nature of the relationship between social variables studied and the level of social changes associated with agriculture and tourism professions at the study area.
To achieve these goals, social survey methodology is used in the sample, Central was chosen (Chekka in North Sinai governorate), (Sharm el Sheikh, South Sinai governorate), with the highest number of workers in agriculture and tourism career respectively who have experience for more than 15 years working in both professions, and rebelled against 200 was selected from farming, and rebelled against 200 of tourism professionals identified according to krigsi equation and Morgan, have been collecting field data from January until 2016 April 2016 using questionnaire interview.


 
The study indicated a number of results:
1. The rising of age mean of  employees in farming profession (41.79) comparing to employees in tourism  (39.35 years).
2. The rising of experience mean of employees in farming profession (27.63 years), comparing to ( 20.8 years) for the profession of agriculture.
3. The rising of informal participation mean of employees in farming profession (10.6), comparing to ( 20.8) for the profession of agriculture.
4. The rising of degree of adherence to customs and traditions mean of employees in farming profession (13.5), comparing to (9.2) for the profession of agriculture.
5. There are differences between the average degree of social change of  respondents employed in tourism and agriculture for the benefit of tourism profession.
6. There is a correlation between the degree of social change and the studied variables (age-education-years of experience-informal social participation-the degree of adherence to customs and traditions) of respondents working in my profession, tourism and agriculture.
One of the most important research recommendations:
-For the agriculture sector: attention to marketing and administration of nearby markets to attract workforce to farming, which is the first Foundation of the development process.
For the tourist sector: training programmers for employees of the tourism profession nomads to identify tourism culture and distance from the negative behaviors that affect the operation of attractions.