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[Name] Amir Gohar [Degrees] Bachelor of Urban Planning, Cairo University Master of Urban Design, Oxford Brookes University Diploma in Land Management, I.H.S - Erasmus University
Amir has been a tourism and land use planner and sustainable development expert with fourteen years of experience working with municipal governments, international organizations, and private sector firms on site planning, ecotourism strategies, master planning and landscape planning. He always engages local communities in any planning process, especially planning for ecotourism and agro-tourism facilities. He has worked extensively in areas adjacent to national parks and coastal areas that are designated as ecotourism destinations with focus on preservation of natural and cultural resources and he has also worked in upgrading urban areas that rely on tourism as a vehicle to the revitalization of their livelihoods. His recent areas of research focus on the Red Sea coast as a tourism destination and the process of tourism development that occurs in Egypt from the constitution level through policy down to implementation, with specific interest in mapping the entire process and identifying the weak areas in the process in order to propose adequate solutions. He has worked extensively in the MENA region and Africa, with specific tourism planning in the southern region of the Red Sea in Egypt, Agro-tourism planning for different sites in Saudi Arabia, the Cradle of Human Kind Park and the Kalahari in South Africa, and Jebel Akhdar (Green Mountains) in Libya.
Ph.D. Students | UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
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