(Historical Cairo Development Urban Study)

Egypt holds unique assets as a tourism destination as it owns approximately one-third of the world’s antiquities, an assured climate, and a diversity of landscapes and special places. The travel and tourism sector is an important part of Egypt’s economy because of its contribution to GDP, employment, and foreign currency revenues. Egypt’s tourism industry has demonstrated its potential as a driver of economic growth and poverty alleviation.

More needs to be invested in the conservation and maintenance of Egypt’s unparalleled cultural heritage assets, as well as the diversification of cultural tourism experiences and destinations. Cultural tourists generally spend more money and consume more domestic services, as they most often use multiple hotels, tour guides, and domestic transportation, and interact more directly with local populations, all in pursuit of a unique travel experience. Policymakers and tourism industry leaders need to take advantage of Egypt’s competitive advantage and identify and leverage the cultural attributes that make Egyptian destinations distinctive. Solutions such as site bundling/clustering or promoting “multi-destination tourism” to provide the more complete “Egypt experience” that visitors are seeking have been proposed. The key for Egypt will be to better segment the market for lower-value beach tourism and higher-value forms of tourism (including cultural tourism) in order to capture increasing shares of both. The 3 RFI-263-19-00001 Activity Title: Cultural Tourism Development in Egypt sustainable development of cultural heritage tourism has the potential to contribute to accelerated economic growth and job creation, as well as the rejuvenation of local communities.

By 2018, the USAID representatives approached us with the above mentioned RFI, and we presented our integrated urban study, the study was submitted and we received a thanks mail from the representatives, informing us that our study was one of the best, and they achieved approval from the USA congress in order to direct the fund for implementing the study.