SEYCHELLES SET TO HONOUR TOURISM PIONEERS AS PART OF WORLD TOURISM DAY CELEBRATIONS
(Posted 15th September 2015)
When the Seychelles Tourist Board CEO Ms. Sherin Naiken yesterday revealed the programme for the upcoming tourism week, which will culminate on the 27th with the celebration of World Tourism Day, it was quickly apparent that the industry this year is in for a special treat.
On the 26th of September will a special ceremony take place at the Seychelles Tourism Academy where the pioneers of the industry will be honoured. These will be individuals with outstanding contributions to advancing the tourism agenda, local investors who already in the early days spent their life savings besides incurring often huge loans to build resorts and other tourism businesses and others without whom tourism would today not be what it is.
The week long programme will also see the annual tourism ball being held at the Savoy Resort in Beau Vallon Bay while tourism and hospitality executives will meet tourists arriving on the 27th of September at the international airport to give them a rousing welcome.
Notably will the week start off on the 23rd of September with a mass at Victoria’s cathedral, to which not only the industry but Seychellois at large are invited to attend. This will then be followed by such activities as treasure hunts and tree planting.
Next month will the Seychelles then celebrate the 30th anniversary of their famous ‘Festival Kreol’ when the entire Creole world is expected to be represented in Victoria which besides being the Seychelles’ capital is also known as the Creole Capital of the World.
For added information about the calendar of such events across the year and details about Destination Seychelles click on www.seychelles.travel
