Coast Sea
Aquatic Magnetism: Commerce on the Coast of the Red Sea
Over the last three decades, tourism inflow into Africa has been on a path of geometric increase, earning big for the governments and businesses in the destination states. Algeria, Kenya, Tunisia and Egypt are some of the countries that have greatly gleaned from this bounty of tourism income that is flowing inexorably into the African continent. Across the continent, amazing sites exist blessed with stunning natural architecture that beckons tourists from all over the world especially Europe to the grandeur of North Africa's coastal cities, the ancient monuments of Egypt, the wildlife parks of Kenya, Tunisia's ancient ruins of Carthage, the hills, the rocks, natural springs, rain forests, desert dunes and beautiful waterfalls that dot the African landscape impressing even the most exacting of tourists.
Annually, tens of millions of people leave the borders of Europe and America on tourist trips to Africa. A huge number of these charting a course to the coastal cities, resort towns and villages of North Africa where some of the world's most developed and beautiful Riviera is found. The shorelines of the Red Sea, Nile River, Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic have been developed into splendid attractions that form a sumptuous display of natural beauty.
In 2007, Egypt which has a huge aquatic tourism industry, welcomed 9.99million tourist visitors, while about 1.5 million visitors earned Morocco $7.5 billion in the same year. Vast amount of investments, billions of dollars in private and public capital has gone into continuously developing tourist sites particularly coastal sites to attract more people annually. Morocco's 'Plan Azur' which seeks to increase tourist visits to 10 million by 2010 is consuming billions of the government's dollars to develop five new tourist resorts on the Mediterranean Coast and one on the Atlantic coast.
The Red Sea Riviera, the Mediterranean Riviera, the shores of the Nile Valley and the Atlantic Ocean have consumed the most investments in coastal tourist development in North Africa. The mass of these where used in developing tourist villages, towns, cities, resorts and hotels. Globally renowned hospitality companies, hotel developers, real estate developers, leisure and travel consultants have invested in building hotels and resorts, water parks, casinos, bars, restaurants, marinas, residential villas, schools, hospitals, golf courses etc along these shorelines that today exudes fascinating beauty. These coasts today are the dock of ceaseless entrepreneurial exploits, un-stifled architectural creativity and home to high scale commerce.
The numbers of developments that have been built along these coasts are voluble and the expanse of land covered is extremely huge, cloaked by grandeur and earning billions annually. However, certain of these commercial developments are not only outstanding, they pull the biggest in capital investments to these areas and contribute largely to the advancement of commerce on these coasts. They are the most expansive and the most ambitious developments along the North African coasts.
These master developments expound on how entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ambition can turn societies and economies around abruptly for the better. Ambition because without this entrepreneurial attribute, the volume of commerce being generated, plus the strength and size of the economy that has emerged from these coasts would have only existed in fantasy.
About the Author
Sanyaolu Kehinde and Taiwo aka Stakes are the Founders of Stakes Capital Ltd and its research subsidiary International Corporate Research, the Stakes are business and investment aficionados with an enviable research knack. They are self trained experts in the rudiments of investing and the fundamentals of equity investing.
Research analysts of repute, the 'Stakes' have a natural talent for research and training and have provided solutions to clients of all classes in model design, developing evaluation frameworks, corporate assessment, industry benchmarking and project impact assessment.
They are the authors of numerous published articles and research reports which cut across diverse sectors and countries on the African continent and are driven by a purpose to ensure the creation, promotion and distribution of knowledge in all fields of endeavor with a bias for entrepreneurship and personal finance.
They have a firm belief that a revolution can only come to a nation if and only if there is a people revolution (a change in the mental state of its people).
The 'Stakes' are also very compassionate businessmen who believe that wealth should be used to pursue just causes. They have an obsession for clean environments and received the maiden award of the Centre for Values in Leadership club member of the month for their contributions towards cleaning up of dirty communities in Lagos, Nigeria.
They are both members of the International Age of Character Clubs of the University of science and philosophy, USA
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Discover the Blue Coast of Portugal
One of the most valuable assets of the Costa Azul (or Blue Coast) lies in nature. The 60,000 hectares of protected areas governed by regulations and special protection measures constitute the very best that nature has to offer and mankind has been able to preserve.
Tagus, the Caparica Fossil Cliffs, Arrabida, Sado; Santo Andre, and Sancha Lagoons and Southwest Alentejan Coast are names that reflect the best of our landscape and the best preserved areas of our environment.
The Tagus Estuary Natural Reserve with it Setubal estuarine waters, mud-flats and fens, salterns, islets and farm land has a population of 80,000 birds in Winter and is truly a sanctuary for the rarer species of Europe.
Close by the 13 kilometres of beaches is an area of huge environ mental value, which is, at one and the same time, a leisure and entertainment area.
The Caparica Fossil Cliffs Protected Landscape is a geological formation of great beauty surrounded by characteristic flora and fauna.
The Arrabida Natural Park is the natural link between Sesimbra, Palmela and Setubal, and it constitutes the meeting point of the green and majestic hills and the ocean, blue and indented, that lies beyond the cliffs, the small inaccessible beaches and the modest stretches of dunes.
The Sado Estuary is an area abundant in life and it is a point of encounter of river and ocean that has allowed channels, creeks and mud-flats to Costa de Caparica fossil cliffs, become home both to mammals such as the otter; the badger and the fox; and to about a hundred species of birds including the white stork, the marsh harrier and the heron.
The Santo Andre and Sancha Lagoons Nature Reserve embraces two coastal lagoons and a system of small freshwater lakes formed in depressions among the dunes. The Reserve also covers a marine strip with a sandy substrate.
The Southwest Alentejan and St Vincent Coast Nature Park is ideal for a journey along the western coastline of southern Portugal. Beaches, cliffs, well-preserved villages, Roman traces, a chapel dating from the fifteen-hundreds and an Atlantic Ocean as far as the eye can see.
The dolphin, the symbol of the Costa Azul; is an illustrious species often seen in the Sado and the perfect host of a world in which nature constitutes both a surprise and a discovery.
In the Costa Azul, a time for beach and coast. Costa da Caparica, Melides, Carvalhal and Troia affirm boundless space, sand stretching out beyond the horizon.
Portinho da Arrabida and Porto Covo reveal the intimist scale of the small beach. Sesimbra bears witness to the Portuguese way of living the sea and shows the traditional fishing.
In Costa Azul the Atlantic is the maker of beaches. Huge beaches where the dunes meet the sea. Discrete beaches at the meeting of hill and ocean. In the South the sun.
The sea, blue and vast, and the peaceful virgin sand. These qualities lead us to extend an invitation: dream of a summer on the Costa Azul. On the Costa Azul, the sea and the river.
The Atlantic Ocean, the river of typical craft and discrete distances. Inland, the dams form their plains of water. Yachting, windsurf, water-ski, canoeing, rowing, surf, bodyboard, motor-boating, diving and angling fill the Costa Azul with activity and colour. Boat clubs, underwater activity centres and marine tourism companies provide the ever necessary support.
Typical craft of the river Tagus and the Galeoes (old salt wherries) of the river Sado provide trips through tradition and history. Boat trips invariably provide a promise of surprises, bedazzlement and dolphins. Dolphins that are the symbol of sea and nature in the Costa Azul. A year of adventure and discovery in the seas of the Costa Azul.
Museums, archaeology and monuments take you on a trip though the rich past of the Costa Azul. At the very bottom of history traces of the Neolithic, of the Chalcolithic and of the Iron Age reveal the very beginnings of the human adventure, mankind's initial gestures and the challenge of survival.
Roman presence has left throughout the entire geography of the Costa Azul important remains that include activities and facilities of an industrial nature, spas, shrines and a hippodrome.
History and the passage of time have left the Costa Azul with a remarkable trail or mediaeval castles, renaissance palaces, manor houses, churches, chapels, convents and shrines that invite you to make an appointment with a representation of the world of those days.
Our museums also provide another vision of our way of life down the centuries.
In every municipality, museums, reflecting complementary ways and realities, reveal our collective memories and display visions of art, traditional crafts, ethnography, habits, celebrations and moments that history has kept and the future wants to preserve.
In the Costa Azul, history and heritage are a constant feature. The possibilities and encounters with the heritage are to be found in every city, in every village, in each comer of the region. In the Costa Azul, a place with a history and a time with memory.
The culture of a people is the memory that every day is built up and experienced at festivals, fairs and feasts, at displays of culture and handicrafts, at the bull-fight.
The Costa Azul is rich and diverse in events that are organised yearly, a calendar of encounters with tradition, religious sentiment, a liking for festivity and celebration, the display of that which makes us unique, the construction of our identity.
Whatever the month or the time of year in the Costa Azul some event is always taking place, some celebration will be a cause for festivity. In every municipality, from the South where the coast and the plains come together to the Tagus, a world of happenings is waiting for you, the culture of our people still and forever to be remembered and continued.
In addition to the sea the Costa Azul has a rural, inland world where everything is softness, peace and. tranquillity .The relief is itself an invitation to the horizon where cork oaks and evergreen oaks rise up towards an intense blue and to a light of permanent Summer.
The typical houses of the Alentejo mark the presence of mankind and are gendy revealed as though glued to the landscape. The towns and villages are white, the houses gathered together in exemplary harmony, the casdes vigilant and haughty.
Tradition is not just a memory but is alive and is a part of today's world. Food that tastes of the land and handicrafts that maintain techniques and transform materials are a constant feature that is not to be lost. On the Costa Azul, the plain travels along vine-covered ground that flows to the sea.
The Costa Azul with its southness, its plains, its blue lagoons, its historic centres that constitute a heritage of great wealth. Traditions, savours, arts and crafts recalling pleasures of old.
About the Author
Alentejo Home is the Real Estate specialist in the Alentejo region of Portugal between Lisbon and the Algarve. Find out how we can make your dream come true at Alentejo Home Real Estate
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