To reduce the aforementioned threats from unsustainable tourism development and forestall the consequential impacts on biodiversity in Egypt, the project will seek to alter the trajectory of tourism development in the country and render tourism operations more biodiversity-friendly. At the same time the project will harness the opportunities more sustainable forms of tourism offer for biodiversity and local community development and thereby contribute to the quality diversification of EgyptÔÇÖs tourism product. Action will be needed on several levels and fronts: 1) at the national and regional landscape levels ÔÇô by mainstreaming biodiversity into regulations, spatial and tourism development planning and related investment strategies, to influence (avoid/reduce/restore/offset) the deployment of high-impact tourism developments in ecologically important and sensitive areas, this being the most fundamental irreversible direct threat; and by the concurrent designation of new protected areas and the adaptation of existing protected area boundaries; and 2) at the local site level in existing and prospective tourism zones, especially protected areas and adjacent areas of ecological significance, where physical development is set to occur and where there is a need to change the operational aspects of tourism through additional management interventions to address further direct and indirect threats on biodiversity; this will also entail enhancing the management in concerned protected areas.