Tourism incentives: A Public-Private partnership

After weeks of consultations between the government and private businesses a new batch of amendments to the Tourism Incentives Act have been announced this week.

With the tourism industry–along with fisheries one of the two mainstays of the national economy–currently in the doldrums, the new measures are intended to give travel trade players a chance to cut costs and attract more visitors.

Government officials and industry watchers alike have recognised that neither the public or private sector can make the industry work on their own and the new measures were described by Tourism Principal Secretary, Eddie Bell, as government creating the tools for industry to make the money.

With the Ministry of Tourism and Transport's U-First Unit highlighting the fact that every Seychellois, no matter how indirectly, has a part to play in the health of the tourism industry, everyone will be hoping that the new measures will see the visitors arrival graph start to make an up turn.

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