Modifying the legislative structure for the protection of monuments to serve the cultural, economic and tourist importance of the monument

Document Type : Original Article

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Department of Tourism Studies - Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Alexandria University

Abstract

Due to the economic, cultural and tourist importance of the Egyptian antiquities, many international organizations such as UNESCO have adopted the protection of cultural property within the 1954 Hague Convention which prohibits the looting and theft of any cultural property, as well as the protection of antiquities law No. 117 of 1983 and the new antiquities protection law. In 2010

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