Land Use Planning Department, Space and Environmental Analysis Laboratory, Badji Mokhtar - Annaba University, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Annaba University, Annaba, Algeria
Ornithological tourism is a distinctive tourism potential, because it conforms to the logic of environmental development, and it works for the protection of biological diversity, and as a partner of local communities who wish to develop tourism projects around the observation and the protection of birds. The research aims to try to discover the causes hindering tourism based on the observation of the Algerian nuthatch in the state of Jijel, and to find solutions that would value this tourism, in order to eliminate the seasonality of the tourism sector in the same region on the one hand and to promote environmental tourism through bird watching tourism on the other hand, as Finally, we reached specific steps in order to value this type of tourism, most notably raising awareness at the regional level and enhancing integration between bird protection, especially the Algerian nuthatch , environmental services and the tourism sector.