Tourism potentials, strategic asset of the revitalization of the local economy in Algeria

Abstract

The aspects developed in this article highlight the factors necessary for the
promotion of tourism by thinking of the revitalization of the traditional and
artisanal activities of the ancestral heritage in the perspective of a sustainable territorial development in Algeria in general through case studies
tourism heritage of village areas in Kabylia in particular. Observations of
public policy failures in the tourism sector in Algeria highlight the deficits
to be filled by the new guidelines advocated during the last decade by
offering facilities and bonuses in order to attract the maximum of foreign
and domestic investors. Tourism is perceived as a real vector of territorial
development. With the implication and the dynamisation of the actors of
the organizations of the society and the local communities it is a question
of ensuring the sustainability of the territorial resources undergoing an
abusive degradation. Two case studies are presented through the ghost
village of Ath El Kaid (Tizi-Ouzou) and that of the village of Djoua (Bejaia);
they illustrate the compelling demand for the involvement of local village
communities in sustainable tourism projects from the tourist potentialities
of the territories of the different regions of Algeria