Seychelles Ministry of Tourism and Culture proposes to the World Bank a meeting of small island states of Africa

Published on : Monday, June 23, 2014

african-union-ministerial-meeting-300x232After days of intense discussions with the Seychelles Tourism Board and Tourism Department, the Cabo Verde technical team deliberated on the importance of having a benchmark where both countries could follow and share expertise in the field of tourism.
 

 

In its de-briefing on Friday with the Seychelles Minister of Tourism and Culture, Alain St.Ange and the Cabo Verde Minister of Tourism, Industry and Energy, Humberto Santos de Brito, the technical team delivered their observations from previous days of meetings and networking.
 

It came out pretty clear for the Cabo Verde team comprising of World Bank Experts and Representatives from the Ministry of Finance, from the Tourism private sector and from Government that the meeting was an excellent platform to “share notes” in preparing the small island state for the drafting of its new ten-year strategic plan. It also came out strongly that Cabo Verde was missing out on the benefits of a tourism model where the role of public-private partnership was crucial for its tourism growth.
 

The Cabo Verde’s technical team was further impressed with the Seychelles sources and collection method of data related to tourism activities. Another area that was appraised by the Cabo Verde technical team was human-capacity building in tourism industry especially in the area of training offered to professionals by the Seychelles Tourism Academy.  The World Bank believed although Cabo Verde learnt a lot of lessons from Seychelles, (small island states) these expertises can only be adapted to the respective island’s specificities as no shoe fits all must be respected.

 
Minister St.Ange used that meeting to request that the World Bank team consider his proposal for a small island states of Africa meeting which will be an ideal platform to consolidate ideas. Small island states of Africa, he said, “ should have one common voice because we not only share common attributes, but we also share common challenges”.  Minister Humberto Santo de Brito on his part said Cabo Verde will begin its annual Ministry’s retreat in July to work on its tourism strategic plan and he went on to say that input by representatives from Seychelles would be important in this process.

 

 

Source:- Seychelles Tourism Board

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