Industrial heritage has become a new tourist attraction and Alexandria has great potentials in this field. This paper aims to review different forms of industrial heritage in different tourist destinations. It also attempts to provide a basis for understanding, management and development of industrial heritage in tourism with a special reference to Mina EL-Basal district in Alexandria by proposing two main hypotheses; First, there are potentials of reusing industrial heritage buildings of Mina EL-Basal in tourism. And second, Re-using industrial heritage buildings of Mina EL-Basal can positively contribute to sustainable tourism development. Methodology of "case study" was used, and data was collected using semi-structured interview addressed to stakeholders. The study shows that there are potentials for re-using industrial heritage of Mina EL-Basal district in tourism industry, and more efforts should be undertaken in this direction. The research indicated to the important role the industrial heritage of Mina EL-Basal district can play in sustainable tourism development in Alexandria, and a vision for re-using of the industrial buildings of Mina EL-Basal district has been proposed.
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