Like many countries in the world, Algeria is struggling to find its place in global tourism competitiveness market. this article aims highlight the role of Algeria’s both natural and cultural heritage resources as part of the Maghreb, based on the methodology of ranking countries according to their travel and tourism competitiveness specific to the World Economic Forum. In addition, the study also attempts to point out the influence of other indicators on this competitiveness, and to broach the limitations of this tool -Tourism and Travel Competitiveness Report- in terms of the distribution of indicators and the choice of variables in the tourism competitiveness assessment process.

Wildland–urban interfaces (WUIs) are critical zones for wildfire prevention in Mediterranean and semi-arid landscapes, particularly where human settlements interact with continuous combustible vegetation. In Algeria, operational tools for delineating WUI configurations and spatially prioritizing preventive actions remain limited. This study develops a GIS-based structural wildfire-risk prioritization framework for the Djebel El Ouahch massif (Constantine, northeastern Algeria) by combining WUIMAP II settlement typologies with an Aggregation Index (AI) describing the horizontal continuity of arboreal and shrub vegetation derived from Sentinel−2 data. Built-up structures were classified as isolated housing, dispersed housing, main urbanized areas, or peripheral zones and combined with three AI classes to delineate relative structural-priority areas. Dispersed and isolated housing accounted for 55% and 37% of mapped housing structures, respectively, while the WUI contained an estimated 18,100 inhabitants distributed across 3620 housing units. The resulting WUI × AI structural-priority layer covered 0.863 km², of which high- and very-high-priority zones jointly represented 0.544 km² (63.04%). These priority areas identify locations where structurally exposed settlement configurations coincide with greater horizontal fuel continuity, providing a spatial basis for targeted fuel management, surveillance planning, emergency-access improvement, and wildfire-prevention actions. By improving the spatial targeting of preventive measures, the framework can contribute to sustainable forest and land management, disaster-risk reduction, ecosystem protection, and the resilience of WUI settlements.