Impact of Egyptian Cultural Policy on Cultural Heritage Sustainability: A Case Study, Red Sea (Marsa Alam)

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Heritage and museums studies, Faculty of tourism and hotels management, Helwan university

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Cultural heritage has always been considered one of the main aspects of most governments' sustainable development plans due to its extraordinary nature, it is also compounding the cultural pillar that significantly affects the social dimension of any development strategy. Accordingly, governments globally began to pay attention to adopting several policies to preserve, conserve and sustain their cultural heritage for socioeconomic development and protecting its cultural identity. Heretofore, awareness was raised of the importance of cultural heritage among policymakers, scholars and international organizations from coverage of disciplines and approaches. The Egyptian government planned and paid many efforts to preserve and sustain its social identity at various levels. The purpose of this paper is to investigate Egyptian ideology toward development with the affection of the government's policies associated with development programs of Egypt's Vision 2030, The Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS) on the sustainability of Egyptian cultural heritage, particularly in light of climate change, and using the Red Sea (Marsa Alam) as a case study.

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International Journal of Tourism, Archaeology and Hospitality
Volume 3, Issue 2
July 2023
Pages 290-306

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