Environmental Space Strategy as a Tool to Tourism Development in Gharb Sohiel Village- Nubia.

Egypt is richly with some of the world’s most remarkable ancient monuments and historical treasures which attract large numbers of international visitors. Less well known but equally valuable is Egypt’s natural and cultural heritage. Tourism development and related investments depends on at numerous natural and historical destinations in Egypt Such as: Sinai, the Red Sea area , Oases of the Western Desert , Luxor and Aswan. Gharb Sohiel village has a very significant privacy as a tourism area where set on the west of Nile at the far south valley and interested with superb natural and cultural landscape recognized and promoted by its people and the special tourist who wants to identify the Nubian culture and enjoy the natural and cultural heritage. But the problem lies in the lack of vision and strategy for the environmental space by the government and specialists in the environmental field, which relies heavily on individual interpretations of the youth and residents of the village. The research casts light on the Gharb Sohiel village as a unique area and the current unlimited potentials from where the cultural landscape , nature and close Nile view , archaeological , continuity of the human heritage , architectural decorative heritage, hand crafts products, which constitute the starting essential points to plan a strategy re-view the environmental space of the village and its directly affect to the tourism development and thus on the economic situation of the inhabitants of the village. The problem lies in the absence of a clear strategy for environmental space in Gharb Sohail village, which has many of the archaeological, historical, natural, cultural and human resources, that form the basis for real tourism development