The Effect of Community-Based Tourism on Woman Empowerment to Achieve Sustainable Development: The Case of Nuba

Tourism has gained considerable attention, especially through its capacity for sustainability. Consequently, Community-Based Tourism (CBT) allows better connection with the local community, which enables extensive economic and social development for the locals. Since Egypt pays special attention to Nubian women, and exploits their skills in sewing, detailing, looms, carpets, and handicrafts, to provide job opportunities for them, the current research aims to explore the role of CBT activities in empowering Nubian women, as a way of achieving sustainable development in Nuba.A quantitative approach was carried out by distributing a questionnaire form to a purposive sample of Nubian women to explore the extent to which they contribute to CBT activities, and the valid returned forms were 67 analyzed using SPSS. The results showed that CBT has offered diverse job opportunities to women in Nuba, which has positively affected the economic standard of their families. This proves that Nubian women's empowerment in CBT has significantly affected sustainable development in Nuba.