Understanding resident attitudes toward sustainable tourism: evidence from Egyptian ecovillages on perceived benefits and resident support

Sawsan Haider Abdullah Khreis is general secretary of Arab tourism experts union. She works as associate professor and head of travel and tourism department, Yarmouk University, Jordan. She is Union UNWTO TedQual Certified Department and Member of Association of North America Higher Education International. Further, she had more published papers in top-tier journals within hospitality and tourism realm.

Elham Gharib Saghier is a public relations specialist at the Faculty of Tourism and Hotels at Suez Canal University and a lecturer at the Higher Institute for Specific Studies in Al-Arish and Ismailia. Her research interests are crisis management, quality management and business economics.

Debasish Batabyal has been teaching Travel and Tourism Management at Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism, Amity University, Kolkata, West Bengal. A postgraduate in Business Management with specialization in tourism, Dr Batabyal received Doctorate degree from the Department of Business Administration, University of Burdwan in the year 2013. His areas of research interest include cultural tourism, religious tourism, sustainable development and social solidarity economy. He has published a number of research articles in internationally reputed journals of Social Sciences. He has also been awarded ILO’s South-South Triangular Cooperation scholarship in 2019 to participate in 11th Social and Solidarity Economy Academy in Madrid, Spain.

Rupa Sinha is an assistant professor in Amity Institute of Travel and Tourism Amity University Kolkata. She is a PhD in Business Management and 7 years of teaching experience. Her research areas are heritage management, indigenous culture, aboriginal heritage preservation and management. Dr Sinha has more than 20 publications in reputed travel and tourism journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. She reviews many articles and is one of the editors of Sustainability Frontier.

Abuelhassan Elshazly Abuelhassan is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Tabuk. His research interests are in the hospitality and tourism areas of organizational behavior, human resources management, leadership, research methods, green hospitality and marketing.

Kareem M. Selem is a lecturer at Hotel Management Department, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Suez Canal University, Egypt. He has a diverse experience in hospitality management, especially in upscale restaurants and hotels. His research interests are employee wellbeing, crisis management and disruptive innovations in the hotel industry. He is a reviewer for some top-tier journals, among them the International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management (IJCHM), the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (JHTM) and Tourism Management Perspectives (TMP).