Community
Wadi Ar-Rayyan Protectorate embraces its local community that has varieties of the economic activities. Tourist areas, such as waterfalls and beaches, attract annually almost 150 thousand visitors to enjoy admiring the scenic landscape, swimming and relaxing. The visitors are usually so fond of local community souvenirs that they are often used to buy lots, in addition to different cafeterias and restaurants where they could have a break. This represents a major source of income for many local residents, as well as other economic activities such as agriculture, oil mining, salt mining, fishing, fish farming. In the protectorate live about 12240 persons that work in agriculture: they cultivate almost 4500 acres with various types of crops and plants. Moreover, 129 feddans work in fish farming on an area of 1300 feddans of fish farms. Further more, in the protectorate exist also approximately 1724 free fishermen working on 182 boat, 50 persons working in salt mining, 46 persons from local community working in the protectorate constituting approximately more than 90% of its total staff: employed mainly in jobs of guard, security, collecting visit fees and administration. In school trips, the pupils could visit the protectorate to be directly acknowledged by Visitor Center
It has been created a new program for manufacturing and marketing environmental products for benefit of the local community so that the community could sell their products, whether organic agricultural products or handmade products: bamboo bins, handicrafts.
Therefore, they could be bought in the protectorate: organic agricultural products, grains, dairy products, olive, aromatic plants and handicrafts. Regarding fish, you could get it in the early morning from fishermen within the main Visitors Area or from collecting fish units. You could ask anyone of the protectorate workers how to reach.