Tourism Minister St.Ange of the Seychelles
heads to Ghana for the UNWTO Regional
Conference on enhancing BRAND AFRICA &
FOSTERING TOURISM DEVELOPMENT
Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism
and Culture is on his to Ghana where he will be participating in
a UNWTO Regional Conference on Enhancing Brand Africa,
Fostering Tourism Development.
Minister St.Ange will be in Ghana until the 19 August when he
will be heading to Kenya for another Ministerial meeting for Tourism
Ministers of East Africa and of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands.
The Seychelles Minister is responding to a call by Mr Taleb Rifai,
the UNWTO Secretary General to be a speaker to this UNWTO
Regional Conference which will be looking at Brand Africa and
Fostering Tourism Development. Seychelles was one of the countries
which appealed to the AU (Africa Union) to work with its member
states to develop a Brand Africa for the continent’s tourism industry.
The AU followed this appeal by organising a Ministerial Meeting on this
very point in Seychelles over a year ago now.
This Ghana meeting will be uniting a large number of Tourism Ministers
from Africa and through the UNWTO, they will all be seated together to analyse
this call for a Brand Africa bearing in mind that tourism is one of the Africa’s
most promising sectors in terms of development.
