Gate Way To Egypt

Tourism is undoubtedly an important domain of economic development in Egypt and the rest of the world that should be encouraged and promoted. The tourist industry has been based on modes of traditional tourism that has frequently clashed with ecotourism as this rapid expanding growth of tourism in Egypt has serious implications for the safeguarding of archaeological sites in Egypt. This has encouraged us to require new thinking and a new sensibility that recalled for a reconsideration of the role of tourism in the ideas and concepts of cultural heritage promoted by the tourist industry. That is what encouraged us to create strategy that has a linkage with cultural heritage. GWTE embraces the concept of sustainable tourism that optimises the economic and other societal benefits available in the present without jeopardising the potential for similar benefits in the future.

We believe in paying back to the world we travel, through promoting cooperation between all affected parties and through managing the cultural and natural resources to the negotiated benefit of all interested parties in the community. This can be achieved by establishing a policy of cultural economic development that makes use of archaeological and cultural resources for allevating poverty with monitoring the social and symbolic implications of such endeavours.

Economic responsibility:

• Involve the local community in planning and decision making.

• The programs offered will allow the tourists to visit the real markets not the typical ones that only offer the finished products that could be even done outside Egypt. They need to see the real markets the place to observe artisans at work thus enhancing the human element in the making of objects and linking the work to human face, this will encourage and develop the efforts and skills of the artisans and also preserves the small hand crafts from disappearing.

• The programs designed will provide significant business benefits to the local community by using their small business to offer services to the travellers as restaurants, cars etc---.

• The use of local resources in a sustainable manner.

• Cooperate with different parties in providing proper training to the locals to open for them employment opportunities and involvement in preservation of their community’s identity.

Environmental responsibility:

• All visits carried out should have low visitor impact on the sites.

• Provide the travellers with opportunities to learn about the environment and the cultural heritage.

• Avoid waste and over consumption

• Provide travellers with high quality experiences of the natural environment

• Engage tourist in environmental and cultural conservation

• Work with other operators on developing integrated environmental management principles for all tourism projects, which will lead a coordinated country wide environmental strategy.

Social responsibility:

• The travel itineraries offered will introduce the traveller not only to ancient Egypt but also to the contemporary cultural context of Egypt.

• The type of Tours offered will take into consideration and actively incorporates in the tourist experience aspects of the social life of the local communities, their customs and traditions, their own sense of heritage, their history and artistic, architectural literary and other cultural achievements.

• GWTE pays attention to the local communities, engages them in the tourist industry, provides their children with educational opportunities and engages them in the protection of cultural and natural heritage.

• Encourage the host community and the travellers to respect cultural diversity.

• Encourage the traveller to be sensitive to the host culture.

• The programs offered will enhance a sense of emotional engagement with the environment and the local communities.

• All the programs carried out that involves the local communities should aim at minimizing negative& sociocultural disruption of host communities.