This paper alerts the tourism industry and researchers to innovations in tourism development strategies in extreme environments in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the State of Qatar, the MENA region and other desert areas as a blueprint for cost-effective and culturally and economically...

One of the most vulnerable and fragile areas in terms of ecological and socio-economic is desert. The uncontrolled exploitation of natural resources in the desert areas in most of developing countries is caused progress of desert areas and instability of rural settlements and destruction of...