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New Zealand and Seychelles Ministers discuss tourism

June 27, 2016 • admin

The New Zealand Minister of Foreign Affairs and MP for East Coast Bays, the Hon. Murray McCully, who’s in Seychelles for the AIMS (Atlantic, Indian Ocean and South China Seas) sub-regional grouping meeting, made time to name on Minister Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister liable for Tourism and Culture. The hot Zealand Minister was accompanied by Ambassador James Kember, the recent Zealand Ambassador just accredited to Seychelles.

The two Ministers discussed the tourism development in Seychelles and likewise the moves to diversify the islands’ tourism source markets. At the marketing front they discussed their Tourism Board’s presence at tourism trade fairs and the usage of events to advertise tourism through culture and those. Minister McCully said as he was leaving the Ministry of Tourism and Culture Offices on the national Cultural Center in Victoria that he would discuss the participation of latest Zealand on the annual Carnaval International de Victoria that’s staged in Seychelles the last weekend of April along with his Minister liable for Tourism.

“This annual carnival is quite much a festival of color because it is a chance for countries, as they do in tourism trade fairs, to fly their flags to showcase their unique selling points but this time using culture and folk as their key assets. This Indian Ocean Carnival remains the sole carnival where the suitable and most known carnivals parade together followed by cultural troupes from the Community of countries,” Minister St.Ange of the Seychelles told the brand new Zealand Minister.

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