Socio-economic Assessment of the Southern Red Sea Region
Description
The Egyptian Tourism Development Authority (TDA) is developing and adopting with the help of the Red Sea Sustainable Tourism Initiative (RSSTI) and funded by the USAID, an environmentally sensitive land use zoning policy for its lands in the Southern Red Sea Region. The Socio-Economic Assessment was prepared under RSSTI in order to better understand the existing social and economic
characteristics of the Red Sea area south of Marsa Alam including both the nomadic and permanent residents of the Southern Red Sea Region (SRSR).
Services
NSCE has been contracted to support TDA in the framework of the RSSTI with a profile of the indigenous Southern Red Sea population, to review and to assess their skills and interest in engaging in sustainable tourism development as to enable TDA RSSTI to integrate socio-economic factors into their planning exercise.
The assignment was carried out through an intensive literature review, a Participatory Rapid Appraisal study including focus group discussions and in-depth interviews.
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