MTPA’S MOOTOOSAMY ATTEMPTS DAMAGE CONTROL
(Posted 13th February 2014)
Usually reliable and well informed sources in Port Louis have broken the story that the head of the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority, one Karl Mootoosamy, clearly rattled by both local and international media reports about his continued spat with the Seychelles and the Vanilla Island Organziation, has apparently tried to mend some of the broken down fences.
It is understood that Mootoosamy attempted to deny any effort on his part to leave the Vanilla Island Organization however failing to answer relevant questions in regard to media reports over the past two weeks as to other announcements and quotations allegedly made to the contrary.
One source in fact called Mootoosamy a ‘bystander’ whose heart clearly is not inside wider regional cooperation or the Vanilla Islands inspite of Mauritius being a founder member.
Media contacts from Port Louis also confirmed that Mootoosamy was unwilling to go on public record in the media, perhaps anticipating that failure to answer questions put to him may only lead to yet more pressure on him to stand down, should he fail to explain his obvious antipathy towards regional partners and cooperation so often allegedly uttered in private or within earshot of third parties who are then spreading his true feelings.
Evidence, both hard and circumstantial, presently speaks another language from what appears has been a single approach to a critical media person on Mauritius, a development which only further confusticates and smokescreens the issue instead of finally owning up. Watch this space for more updates on this sad saga of how the leader of Mauritius tourism’s official agency digs himself deeper and deeper into that proverbial hole.
