Leadership Teaching Impact on Tourism Students’ Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Leadership in Developing Economies: The Case of Egypt

This study aims to investigate the influence of leadership teaching in developing economies (i.e., Egypt) on tourism students’ attitudes and perceptions toward leadership and their leadership skills. The study validates a conceptual model utilizing a positivist approach, in which quantitative data were collected based on a survey strategy through questionnaires targeting a sample of 1,046 Egyptian final-year tourism undergraduate students. The findings indicate that teaching leadership in tourism undergraduate courses in Egypt has an impact on students’ attitudes and perceptions toward leadership as well as their leadership skills. This study adds to the extremely limited number of empirical studies that have been conducted to investigate leadership teaching by Egyptian universities and has great benefits for practitioners, researchers, and educators though providing a clearer view and deeper understanding of the issues related to teaching leadership in tourism undergraduate courses in a developing economy (Egypt).