Heritage and Environmental Conservation of Mekdela Amba Historical Site for Sustainable Tourism Development in Tenta district of South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia

This project is named Heritage conservation of Mekdela Amba Historical site for sustainable tourism development in Tenta district of South Wollo, Ethiopia, and its main objective is to explore, conserve, and promote the landscape, geological, archeological, and cultural tourism resources to enhance the Mekdela Amba historical site tourism destination that would benefit the communities at large. It also has a great contribution to alleviating the deterioration of heritage sites, environment, and soil degradation by livestock grazing, agricultural practice, and other natural phenomena, and it would pave the way for the conservation of natural and historical resources that exist here at Mekdela Amba. Commemorate those who sacrifice themselves for the well-Bing of their country and conserving it by making the site free from third person, creating buffer zone to the historical heritage site, preparing billboard, promoting the site, building statue, museum, and loge at the mountain and enabling the site to be tourist destination to create temporary and permanent job opportunities will be the tasks and benefits of this project. This project is too important so as to create a generation who know his/her history and preserve his/her heritages. The owner of the project is Amba University, and the practical work requires active involvement of all stakeholders; the duration of this project will be from 2017 up to 2021 E.C and its beneficiaries are local communities, district, zone, and region, particularly the country generally. The total estimated budget of this project is 21,433,917. 24 Birr Ethiopian birr. Expected challenges that face the project will be a lack of budget and limited involvement of stakeholders. The great opportunity for the success of this project would be the potential of the area for tourism development, its popularity, and good team coordination across various colleges.