Adopting tracks with activities as a plan for managing visitors Heritage areas to achieve sustainable tourism "A case study in the old city of Rasheed"

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Instructor- Economic and Administrative department -Faculty of Environment Studies and Researchers

Abstract

Many heritage sites in Egypt were exposed to development threats, as a result, these areas were unable to Resilience and standing in front of Developmental variables .Historic city centers in the Middle East Suffer from lack of urban planning and sustainable heritage management and located under economic and social pressure changes. This impact is
Noticeable on, both its natural and constructed aspects, where the low cultural awareness of the importance of the heritage component in these areas led to misuse, in addition to the unplanned demolition or replacement. The population increase led to Low level of services and increasing the burden on the infrastructure as well as the surrounding environment, which led to changes in the components of the natural environment such as air, soil and water, beyond that affected the built heritage environment.
With the global trend to preserve cultural, heritage, and
civilizational - the early seventies of this century - the
governments became interest in preserving and conservation
heritage as an economic resource of high value that can be
exploited and managed in order to achieve the principles of
sustainable development approved by the United Nations and
endorsed by the Egyptian state in its 2030 development plan.
This research investigates and highlights the intrinsic value of
heritage conservation in building a sustainable society; from an
environmental, economic, and social perspectives. This research
is applying the sustainable administrative method to heritage
center city of “rosette”, and consider heritage trail activity as A
key factor in the success of the visitor management plan.

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