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Slum Tourism as a Requirement to Ensure Sustainable Urban Development. Case-Study: Cairo’s Ashwa’iyat (Informal Areas).

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One of the key issues facing the Egyptian Government is a way to give a development of Slums and boost its livelihood to satisfy the needs of its people. In this context, sustainable slum tourism is the key driver of real development , the current research shows that it is important to lead slum development within the sustainable slum tourism framework in order to optimize the benefits of tourism sector targeting the informal regions of Egypt since it takes up 38.60% of Egyptian urbanization,  but to do it sustainably takes an optimistic and positive vision, especially since there are dozens of opportunities that can Benefiting from the development of sustainable slum tourism and its impact on informal areas in Egypt, , similar to many developing countries such as India, Brazil, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa and Indonesia, in which this type of tourism started. To deal with the slum tourism system, the study in slum Egypt must be determined within the framework of both the supply and demand issues.  In the context of the supply issue, all the elements of the Egyptian informal areas are studied and identified of various kinds (slums on agriculture land, slums on desert land, and Housing in the cemeteries), which reflects the vocabulary available for development, while the issue of demand is all about the quality of tourism demand in this pattern, which is referred to as the increase due to the desire of tourists to go to this type of areas. And then the paper concludes with a summary of the findings and recommendations to  operationalize the sustainability of the system, that must be addressed within the framework of a set of pillars on which sustainability principles are based and are:(the environmental framework-the social framework-the economic framework-the institutional framework).

DOI

10.21608/bfemu.2021.169803

Keywords

Types of tourism, sustainable tourism, slum tourism, pillars of sustainable development, sustainable slum tourism

Authors

First Name

Alaa

Last Name

Elmanzlawi

MiddleName

Abdelhamid

Affiliation

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design., Architecture Department., Faculty of Fine Arts., El-Mansoura University., Mansoura., Egypt.

Email

alaa.elmanzlawi@mans.edu.eg

City

Mansoura

Orcid

0000-0001-6750-4295

Volume

46

Article Issue

2

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23998

Issue Date

2021-06-01

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2020-11-08

Publish Date

2021-05-10

Page Start

29

Page End

46

Print ISSN

1110-0923

Online ISSN

2735-4202

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BFEMU_Volume 46_Issue 2_Pages 29-46.pdf

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1,205

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Publication Title

MEJ. Mansoura Engineering Journal

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https://bfemu.journals.ekb.eg/

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Slum Tourism as a Requirement to Ensure Sustainable Urban Development. Case-Study: Cairo’s Ashwa’iyat (Informal Areas).

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22 Jan 2023