Sustainable development, tourism and heritage in Red Sea regions: Blue growth and value chain between competition and integration

Rashed, Ahmed; Ibrahim El-Belkasy, Mohamed

doi:10.21608/ijmsac.2022.280807

Sustainable development, tourism and heritage in Red Sea regions: Blue growth and value chain between competition and integration

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Professor- Architectural department –Faculty of Engineering - British university in Egypt

² Associate Professor- Architectural department –Faculty of Engineering - British university in Egypt

10.21608/ijmsac.2022.280807

Abstract

Blue Growth is a new economic and planning concept that aims to promote economic growth and social inclusion in order to maintain or improve livelihoods while ensuring the sustainability of oceans and coastal areas. In conjunction with this trend towards blue growth, there are new entities and organizations crystallizing around the same concept and relevant principles around the world, and the question raised by the working paper here is related to the Red Sea Basin and where is it among the initiatives related to blue growth, especially with regard to this in the field of sustainable tourism and heritage preservation? From this logic, this working paper, in an unprecedented way, deals with research objectives related to the extent to which visions and initiatives related to preserving the urban heritage in the Red Sea Basin are compatible with the principles of blue growth, and how through the value chain framework we can ensure benefit For all concerned parties, as the research reviews a case study of the cities of Yanbu in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Al-Qusayr in the Arab Republic of Egypt to apply a proposed methodology for the value chain of heritage development according to the blue growth system, and then evaluates the results of this study and draws a set of considerations and implementation mechanisms related to the implementation of the value chain of blue growth In the Red Sea, so as to achieve integration in the Red Sea entity and achieve a competitive advantage in front of other similar entities around the world .

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