The Role of the Tourist Attractions Factors in Improving Urban Ecotourism (Algeria & Jordan)

Abstract

There are various tourist attractions in cities because they contain various welfare and recreation areas for leisure that are stemming from their geographic, architectural, and humanitarian nature which enhance the urban tourism. Annaba (Algeria) and Aqaba (Jordan) provide a model of two coastal cities that witness both social and economicdevelopment which depend on manufacturing policy due to the availability of various supported features, which have a direct impact on improving urban ecotourism in addition to other factors.  Annaba and Aqaba are similar in terms of geographic, social, economic, and cultural characteristics. All of which constitute tourist attraction factors. However, tourist development strategy that is applied in Aqaba more environmental practice due to its adoption of various methods for management, environmental planning, raising awareness on ecotourism, encouraging it for local community participation in providing job opportunities throughout tourism seasons, particularly after increasing ecotourism investments when compared with Annaba city, which, in turn reflects disparate attractiveness level of urban environmental tourism in each city that has been revealed by a group of tourist attraction indicators that are distributed on three sets of standards, namely: ecological, social, and economical by using "Bernoise" compass that has been adapted to serve urban environmental tourism within its primary framework that revolves around sustainable development.