(Posted 19th November 2024)
Tourism Consultant Dr. Alain St.Ange who heads his Seychelles based
‘Saint Ange Tourism Consultancy’ leaves the Seychelles this coming
Thursday the 21st November to travel to Kazakhstan for a four day
mission at the invitation of VisitAlmaty of Almaty Tourism Department.
This city administration government body holds such a tourism event
annually for the industry, and they invite Speakers from Influential
Organizations from the Community of Nations.
The main audience is managers from tourism related people, who work
in different fields of government i.e. tourist police, rescue, destination
management, customs, border guards who need to train their personnel
to work with tourists in a manner to show the country attractive for
tourism.
“We have 300 delegates, and the number could increase slightly, and
they would be divided into 10 groups with 30 people. The employees
understand what tourism is in general. And Kazakhstan is a new
destination, and we need to appreciate how to deal with foreigners”
When being briefed on this assignment Dr Alain St.Ange, a former Minister
of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports & Marine of the Seychelles, was told that
the main goal of this mission was to firm up the understanding of
International Standards and the implementation importance in hospitality
industry to create a ‘friendly’ environment for international visitors and
also to train people on the high standards of behavioural norms towards
visitors with the aim of creating Global awareness of Kazakhstan as
friendly tourist destination.
Dr. Alain St.Ange said as he was getting ready for this working trip that he
was thrilled to be heading to Kazakhstan. “This will be my first visit to this very big country. It will be a discovery trip for me as I embark on this
practical like training mission”
