Seychelles’ model of sustainable tourism impresses Cabo Verde
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Seychelles’ model of sustainable tourism impresses Cabo Verde
Seychelles’ model of sustainable tourism impresses Cabo Verde
21-June-2014
Cabo Verde wants to boost its tourism growth by following Seychelles' successful model of sustainable tourism.
A technical committee comprising representatives from the World Bank, and the Cabo Verde private sector, Ministry of Finance, Tourism Board, Chamber of Commerce headed by Humberto Brito, Cabo Verde’s Minister for Tourism, Industry and Energy have met the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St Ange and a Seychelles delegation to discuss Seychelles’ best practices of sustainable tourism to help develop tourism growth in Cabo Verde.
Seychelles’ delegation at the meeting also comprised Benjamine Rose, principal secretary for Culture; Sherin Naiken, chief executive of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) and Sinha Levkovic, director of standards and regulations in the tourism department.
Before getting down to business, Minister St Ange welcomed his counterpart and his technical committee at the table of discussion. Minister St Ange outlined efforts to strengthen cooperation between Seychelles and Cabo Verde.
“We are small island states with common challenges. We are all vulnerable as small island developing states. Our biggest single asset is our tourism industry, and for Seychelles this remains the pillar of our economy. We should consolidate this industry and as islanders ensure we claim back our key industry,” the Seychelles minister said.
Seychelles and Cabo Verde shares the same blue sea and white sandy beaches. But compared to Cabo Verde, Seychelles has learned to be innovative in its approach to achieve tourism growth.
The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture is playing the card of visibility and its diversity of culture to outshine its fierce competitors.
It is also clear for Seychelles that tourism cannot exist without its people. The population’s participation in this industry must not only continue but must increase, Minister St Ange said.
“My statement is clear. The people of Seychelles needed to claim back its industry. Our people understood the meaning of this phase, and its implication. Today we can proudly say, we’ve claimed back our industry, because our people are today more than ever before in the front line of their industry,” Minister St Ange said.
Tourism sustainability is one of the founding axes of Cabo Verde’s Tourism Master Plan. The World Bank is accompanying Cabo Verde to further build this concept.
Minister Brito said his country’s mission is to grow its tourism figure and for tourism to achieve more for the country than 20% of its Gross Domestic Product as is the case today.
Minister Brito formed part of the delegation who accompanied Cabo Verde’s President, Dr Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca, on his State visit to Seychelles this week.
The delegation left Seychelles yesterday.
http://www.nation.sc/article.html?id=242064
21-June-2014
Cabo Verde wants to boost its tourism growth by following Seychelles' successful model of sustainable tourism.
A technical committee comprising representatives from the World Bank, and the Cabo Verde private sector, Ministry of Finance, Tourism Board, Chamber of Commerce headed by Humberto Brito, Cabo Verde’s Minister for Tourism, Industry and Energy have met the Seychelles Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St Ange and a Seychelles delegation to discuss Seychelles’ best practices of sustainable tourism to help develop tourism growth in Cabo Verde.
Seychelles’ delegation at the meeting also comprised Benjamine Rose, principal secretary for Culture; Sherin Naiken, chief executive of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) and Sinha Levkovic, director of standards and regulations in the tourism department.
Before getting down to business, Minister St Ange welcomed his counterpart and his technical committee at the table of discussion. Minister St Ange outlined efforts to strengthen cooperation between Seychelles and Cabo Verde.
“We are small island states with common challenges. We are all vulnerable as small island developing states. Our biggest single asset is our tourism industry, and for Seychelles this remains the pillar of our economy. We should consolidate this industry and as islanders ensure we claim back our key industry,” the Seychelles minister said.
Seychelles and Cabo Verde shares the same blue sea and white sandy beaches. But compared to Cabo Verde, Seychelles has learned to be innovative in its approach to achieve tourism growth.
The Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture is playing the card of visibility and its diversity of culture to outshine its fierce competitors.
It is also clear for Seychelles that tourism cannot exist without its people. The population’s participation in this industry must not only continue but must increase, Minister St Ange said.
“My statement is clear. The people of Seychelles needed to claim back its industry. Our people understood the meaning of this phase, and its implication. Today we can proudly say, we’ve claimed back our industry, because our people are today more than ever before in the front line of their industry,” Minister St Ange said.
Tourism sustainability is one of the founding axes of Cabo Verde’s Tourism Master Plan. The World Bank is accompanying Cabo Verde to further build this concept.
Minister Brito said his country’s mission is to grow its tourism figure and for tourism to achieve more for the country than 20% of its Gross Domestic Product as is the case today.
Minister Brito formed part of the delegation who accompanied Cabo Verde’s President, Dr Jorge Carlos de Almeida Fonseca, on his State visit to Seychelles this week.
The delegation left Seychelles yesterday.
http://www.nation.sc/article.html?id=242064
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