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Community Based Tourism Training in Old Dongola, Sudan
On 2123 February 2021 the UNESCO Khartoum office organized the CommunityBased Tourism Training for rural communities in the vicinities of the Old Dongola Heritage Site The trainingsession took place in the Al Ghadar Girls Primary School having 35 inhabitants of local communities as trainees including 31 women Dr Jafar Osman Sidahmed from the Sudanese National Commission for Education Science and Culture and Ms Leila Osman Elobeid from the Tourism Sector of the Federal Ministry of Culture and Information led the training During 3 days trainees discussed Existing tourism infrastructure for locality community world practices Communities and possible gains from cultural tourism and industries what has to be developed locally to benefit from coming tourists Local area gaps and resources for improvement managing improvements © UNESCO CommunityBased Tourism Training in Old Dongola Sudan Participants 2123022021 The activity were organized in frameworks of the nafeer joint venture for the area development Old Dongola historical place in the Sudanese Nile Valley former capital of the medieval Nubian Kingdom of Makuria containing numerous traces of both Christian and Islamic periods of peoples life in medieval Nubia Old Dongola is listed as a Sudanese Heritage site in accordance with the UNESCO 1972 Convention Nafeer the Sudanese practice of joint works of all community members for common needs or for helping somebody to make something big house etc Nafeer is listed as an element of the Sudanese Living Heritage Intangible Cultural Heritage in accordance with the UNESCO 2003 Convention