Developing Handcrafts and Traditional Markets as an Approach to Promote Cultural Tourism: Reality, Challenges and Development Ways in Syria

The current study is based on the assumption that there is a natural relationship between handicrafts and tourism, and that there is mutual benefit in the creation and promotion of a private to support the other. This study addresses the current realities and challenges faced the handicraft sector and traditional markets in Damascus, Aleppo and Deir Ezzor, to provide a strategy for development and revitalization of this sector and to meet the needs of the cultural tourism better.