Factors Affecting the Investment of Tourism in Jordan

Abstract

Across years numerous Arab regions have made substantial investments in different tourist amenity packages. These investments were made to either capture a portion of the growing tourism market or establish an image that attracted the human capital needed to advance economic development. This study analyze the factors affecting the investment of tourism in Jordan on the different dimensions of the study. Data have been processed and analyzed through the use of “SPSS” program in order to obtain means, standard deviations, and percentages for the demographic characteristics of the sample. Moreover, analysis of variance (ANOVA) is conducted to test if there are any statistical evidences of the existence of difference between participants to the independent variables. The subject of this study was selected for its theoretical and practical importance in the field of tourism management in general and investment of tourism in particular. This importance arises from the factors affecting the investment of tourism in Jordan which have great effects on individual performance. The study revealed that there are strong statistical evidences that differences exist between employees according to their qualification of the hotel managers, hotel Location, years of experience in the hotel, number of training programs attended by the manager. However, the results show that there is statistical evidence that a difference exists between. The study provided a number of recommendations to help dealing with factors affecting the investment of tourism in Jordan.