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Tourism stressing Egypt’s White Desert’s fragile ecosystem
Image via Wikipedia In recent years, the number of visitors to Bahariya Oasis has climbed so high that one-third of its almost 40,000 residents are now working in tourism. Over the past decade, unemployment decreased as the number of hotels in Bahariya shot up 500 percent, according to Bahariya’s tourism office. Nowhere is the potential for... »
Egypt pledges to become carbon neutral in 10 years
Image via Wikipedia Egypt recently announced its plan to become completely carbon neutral by 2020. The $238 million project hopes to accomplish this through the introduction of renewable energy, reduction of water use, improvement of waste management, and, in the future, the use of electric boats and hybrid buses. The green initiatives are planned to start... »
Egypt’s Mediterranean coast protected in reserve
Egypt wants visitors to discover its Mediterranean coast at a marine reserve being established near the border with Libya. The 383-sq km (150-square-mile) reserve, mostly in the water in the Gulf of el-Salloum, is Egypt’s 28th nature protectorate, but its first on the Mediterranean. The protectorate contains more than 160 migratory and local bird species, about... »
Two Opposing Views on Egypt’s Tribal Tourism
Image by CharlesFred via Flickr Egypt Explores Tourism Beyond The Package Tour A budding eco-travel movement is emerging, almost unnoticed amid the bulging tour buses and packed cruise ships. Its leaders are trying to tap into the skills and knowledge of Egypt’s Bedouins and other tribal peoples, who have been all but ignored by the mainstream... »
Saving Egypt’s Lake Qarun
Egypt’s first IBA-Local Conservation Group/Site Support Group (SSG) has persuaded one of the country’s largest construction groups to end the dumping of waste at Lake Qarun, which holds regionally important numbers of waterbirds in winter. The construction company has also pledged to restore an area of saltmarsh destroyed by tourism development along the lake... »
Ecotourism in Egypt: Siwa Oasis
Image via Wikipedia Visited by travelers as varied as backpackers and European royalty, Siwa is now being touted as a destination for ecotourism. Mounir Neamatalla, a U.S. educated Cairo native, hopes to make Siwa a model of sustainable development with private incentives and microfinance programs through his organization, EQI. Captivated on his first visit in 1996, Mr.... »
Egypt launches desert tourism promotion
After breaking the record for the fastest crossing of the Great Sand Sea last March 5, Egyptian adventurer Hesham Nessim plans to set another record on November 2009 in the Western Desert driving from Siwa to Abu Simbel. Nessim will be driving the “fastest” vehicle ever to cross the Egyptian Western Desert. If this adventure... »
