COMOROS SET BALL ROLLING TOWARDS THEIR AUGUST CULTURE FESTIVAL
(Posted 23rd May 2014)
Comoros Tourism used the Madagascar International Tourism Fair last week as their launch platform to promote their Culture & Gastronomic Festival which will take place on 20th and 21st of August this year.
Ms. Nawal Msaidie, the Executive Director of the National Tourism Office of the Comoros presented details at the Madagascar Fair to fellow Vanilla Islands and the public at large to promote their Culture & Gastronomic Festival.
Mrs. Hissane Guy, the President of Comoros Tourism had personally put the event on the agenda of the Vanilla Islands Ministerial Meeting and then it was up to Ms. Msaidie, the Executive Director of the National Tourism Office of the Comoros to use the tourism trade fair in Madagascar to promote their event which now appears on the Vanilla Islands Calendar of Events alongside the Carnaval International de Victoria of the Seychelles (April), the International Tourism Fair of Madagascar (May) and the Festival Liberte Metisse of La Reunion (December).
Ms. Nawal Msaidie caught up with Mr. Eric Koller, the President of the Madagascar Tourism and Minister Alain St. Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture at the International Tourism Fair of Madagascar as she was handing out brochures of the Culture & Gastronomic Festival of the Comoros.
Both Mr. Eric Koller of Madagascar and Minister Alain St. Ange of the Seychelles promised the Comoros to support the event and help them promote it among not just their fellow Vanilla Islands but beyond in Africa and the world.
Mr. Pascal Viroleau, the CEO of the Vanilla Islands is already making arrangements to invite selected members of the international media from the region’s tourism source markets to ensure that such cultural events held in the region get the added visibility for the member states of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands, the region that has now become the latest upcoming tourism region in the world.
The Vanilla Islands include Reunion, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mayotte, the Seychelles and the Maldives besides the Comoros Islands but is expected to grow further as Zanzibar and some of the Mozambique islands in the Indian Ocean are equally keen to join the group. For more information about the Comoros Islands and their tourism attractions visit http://www.tourisme.gouv.km/
(Seen here is Alain St. Ange, Minister of Tourism and Culture from the Seychelles, Ms. Nawal Msaidie, Executive Director of Comoros Tourism and Mr. Eric Koller, President of Madagascar Tourism)
