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Seychelles hosts SMART educational visit from France The Seychelles Tourism Office in Paris has hosted its first SMART educational visit for this year. The visit is part of the SMART programme organised by the French office to educate and train travel agents on that market. |
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| TOURISM WEEK 2015 |
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Special mass marks the beginning of Tourism Week in Seychelles A special mass was held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception this afternoon to give thanks to the many successes of the Seychelles’ tourism industry. The mass was the first event to mark the start of beginning of this year’s Tourism Week celebrated from September 23-27. |
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
Third Seychelles-India Day to be held soon The Seychelles India-Day committee, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture and the Indian High Commission are hosting the third Seychelles-India Day celebrations from October 2-5. |
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Celebrating 30 years of Festival Kreol Seychelles will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of its Festival Kreol in October this year. Launched in 1985, Festival Kreol has been the biggest cultural event on the Seychelles calendar of events across the years. |
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| MESSAGE FROM OUR MINISTER |
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| MISS SEYCHELLES…ANOTHER WORLD |
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The Minister for Tourism and Culture Alain St.Ange, was recently honoured at the House of Lords in London by the Rt. Honourable Baroness Sandip Verma, Minister of International Development of the UK.
Seychelles has now a dedicated place where all its tourism pioneers will be honoured.
This year’s Tourism Week was celebrated under the theme ‘One billion tourists, one billion opportunities’, which was the international theme for the World Tourism Day 2015 on September 2015.
Representatives of Booking.com were in Seychelles recently to visit properties, meet and give trade partners advice on how they can better perform online and advertise their properties…
Costa Cruises and the Vanilla Islands have signed an agreement for closer cooperation.
This year’s tourism strapline is a "Billion tourists..a billion opportunities" and this is important for two reasons.
The new Miss Seychelles…another world banner was unveiled during the recent Grand Seychelles Ball held at Savoy Resort and Spa, Beau Vallon.
