The Developmental Role of Local Development to Promote Tourism Development in Nineveh Governorate

Abstract

Local development plays a key role in the process of continuity, sustainability and achievement of tourism development through the application of planned tourism programs, local participation and technical assistance from the responsible local authorities, as well as integration between tourism projects, reinforced by the various tourism components provided by Nineveh Governorate between archaeological, religious, historical, natural, recreational and therapeutic, but it has not received the required attention to achieve the desired goals, as many challenges and obstacles stand in the way of the development of tourism development in the governorate. Therefore, the role of local development must be activated through planning to build a well-defined strategy to support tourism development in the governorate. The research aims to activate tourism development by reviewing the types of tourism and tourist sites in Nineveh Governorate, and what are the obstacles facing tourism development and what are the solutions that contribute to the advancement of local development and its increasing growth and sustainability as well as finding future prospects for it, the research includes five topics as well as conclusions and recommendations, the first section deals with the theoretical framework for local development, while the second section includes the theoretical framework for tourism development, the third section reviews the province of Nineveh (historical, administrative and geographical), the fourth section includes the tourism components and types in the province of Nineveh, and the obstacles facing tourism development in the province of Nineveh were discussed in the fifth section.