Welcome to Edition #29 of Saint Ange Tourism 2018, Monday 23rd July 2018
The Editorial this week highlights:
a. Routes Africa 2018.
b. Visibility to maintain relevance.
c. Operating cost and the slide of the Seychelles Rupee against the US Dollar.
d. African Tourism Board – Where Africa becomes one tourism destination. e. Vertical Integration Policy?.
Routes Africa 2018
I was last week honored to have been chosen to be a panelist for the Routes Africa 2018. It was a great event and a golden opportunity to renew contacts and make new friends. Tourism is very much a people’s industry which is why people of the industry have to meet or just simply must meet. Two important Tourism and Aviation Magazines of Africa (Voyages Afriq and Aviation & Allied Business Journal) were present and the chance to meet with them in Ghana was so appreciated.
African Tourism Board – Where Africa Becomes One Tourism Destination
Visibility To Maintain Relevance
Often tourism businesses or hotel establishments raise their occupancy level or discuss how busy or not busy they have been. Tourism Boards have the responsibility to market the destination and to keep the visibility of their destination to ensure it is relevant, but it remains the responsibility of individual businesses to get ‘ahead of the pack’ to get their fair share of arriving visitors. No one can expect to eat a mango when the tree is being given a good shake unless they move to collect them as they fall or to spend to buy them from traders. The same analysis can be made using the picking up of mackerel fish from the beach after the fishermen have brought it a catch from a net. Be on the beach and get your mackerel or buy one from the market, but sitting at home and waiting will not, and just cannot bring the fish to your table.
