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

Abstract

Cultural heritage has always been considered one of the main aspects of most governments' sustainable development plans due to its extraordinary nature; it also compounds the cultural pillar that significantly affects the social dimension of any development strategy. Hence, governments globally began to pay attention to adopting several policies to preserve, conserve, and sustain their cultural heritage for socio-economic development and to protect their cultural identity. Currently, the importance of cultural heritage has the attention of policymakers, academics, and international organizations through coverage of various disciplines and perspectives. The Egyptian government made numerous plans and investments to uphold and maintain its social identity on diverse 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.