Local economic activities as a tool for reservations of the heritage areas

Heritage is the memory of society with its events, crises and stages of development and continuity of various innovations. The concepts of heritage have recently expanded to include all human activities, including economic, social, and craft activities. The Egyptian heritage suffers from administrative and legislative problems and the inadequacy of official methods of intervention in the heritage areas, the lack of transparency, and the official search for direct economic returns through the exploitation of sites located within and on the borders of the heritage areas by making investment projects that are not for the indigenous population. The region is participating in it and without conducting a societal dialogue with them, which makes them unable to participate in developing plans, implementing them or benefiting from its economic product at the very least. A big difference emerged between the importance of community participation and the adoption of a bottom-up policy in the Al Sagha area in Al Jamaliah with the gold and jewelry makers. The original activity, which is wholesale jewelry trade, and between the evacuation of the tanneries area behind the wall of Majra Al-Ayoun by the official authorities and its exploitation in investment projects unrelated to the main activity of the region and the establishment of an industrial zone for leather industries in the Al-Rubiki area between Badr City and the Tenth of Ramadan City .The method of intervention in the first case resulted in the participation of the artisans and the craftsmen of the jewelry industry for their effective participation in the establishment of the infrastructure and their own logistics services at their expense and the state’s participation in building and equipping the stamp and scales department, while in the second case, a state of lack of Satisfaction and consequently the reluctance of some craftsmen to participate, disruption of production and the reluctance of some of them and their retirement from the profession was a result of the new place of industry from them and their places of residence.