Heba Abd El Hamid Abd Allah
Aswan University
Egypt
Title: Spatial success factors for finding suitable sustainable ecotourism location in Upper Egypt Aswan case study
Biography
Biography: Heba Abd El Hamid Abd Allah
Abstract
As ecotourism becomes more and more popular, developing countries are now embracing it and including it in their economic development and conservation strategies. Egypt as one of these countries enjoys a rich cultural and environmental heritage and offers an exceptional environment for ecotourism development. Despite of this heritage of people, accents, history, flora and fauna all offer irresistible lures, Egypt has the Lowest fortune of ecotourism income. This was due to Lack knowledge of spatial success factors for ecotourism location Especial in Upper Egypt. So, the purpose of this study is to identify success factors that affect selecting ecotourism site prior to undertaking the development of an ecotourism operation, understanding these factors will mitigate the risk of failure of selecting process. To achieve these purpose, research divided into three main parts; the first part focused on the analysis of theoretical and conceptual knowledge in available literature especially on Egypt; and the second part deals with Detailed study of study area to figure out which spatial factors fits with it; and the third part Specializes questionnaire with specialists and planners to arrange the spatial success factors in terms of importance and determine the priority of each standard on the other