Sustainable infrastructure assessments in remote areas in Egypt

Abstract

Remote societies often have a local economy that depend on natural resources, which attract tourists, but the problem lies in the difficult accessibility to remote areas and lack of interest in its infrastructure, so they have become unexploited areas and wasting wealth. The research aims to provide a methodology for assessing the most appropriate ways to develop remote areas and to apply this methodology to different remote areas in Egypt to measure their effectiveness. The methodology of the research depends on the theoretical, analytical and applied approach; the theoretical approach reviews the definition of remote areas, and then studies the elements of sustainable infrastructure in remote areas, concludes criteria for assessing sustainable infrastructure in remote areas, then uses the analytical approach to analysis three remote areas in Egypt, which are Shali in Siwa Oasis, Basaysa in South Sinai, and the village of Wadi Rayyan in Fayoum, then applies approach to apply the checklist on these areas. The research concludes that the new Basaysa village achieves the highest infrastructure sustainability assessment, Rayan Valley has the lowest infrastructure sustainability rating as a remote area. As for Siwa Oasis–after the success of the Al-Babenshal Hotel experience, and Adrère Amellal–infrastructure sustainability has been published in all service buildings, such as Banque du Cairo. Although from the Wadi Al-Rayyan region is a research tourist area like Siwa Oasis, it found no attention from investors, the government or researchers, many remote areas in Egypt are in the same condition.