ANALYSIS OF THE REALITY OF THE TOURIST MOVEMENT IN ALGERIAN COASTAL CITIES. CASE STUDY OF THE CITY OF ALGIERS

Abstract

Geographical research has been concerned with tourism studies in terms of studying the characteristics of tourist groups: their satisfaction, attitudes and level of awareness. The use of the behavioral approach became preferred by planners to know the desires of tourists to reach a realistic tourism strategy based on the opinions of the tourists themselves. This research aims to study the characteristics of the tourism movement in the city of Algiers, in order to identify the impressions of tourists about the visit and the most prominent problems they face in the development of tourism in the study area. The topic of the research deals with tourism movements by following the descriptive and analytical approach. Accordingly, the study concluded that the most promising type of tourism in the region is ecological, cultural and recreational tourism, and the summer and spring seasons represent the preferred seasons at the level of tourist movement, while tourists are from the northern states. - The central region constitutes the largest proportion of the number of tourists coming to the region, as the group predominates over young women between (26 - 39) years old, the majority of the number of tourists, and cars are the most widely used means of transportation.