After a busy month of March the Seychelles Tourism Office (STO) in Paris has spread the "as pure as it gets" message to some 400 French travel agents.

In a whirlwind five city tour, which took in Paris, Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux and  Nice/Monaco, staff from the Paris STO were joined by representatives of Air Seychelles, Le Méridien Hotels, Lemuria, Coco de Mer, Denis Island and Paradise Sun.

By far the most successful of the five stop-offs was the Paris leg, which attracted 130 travel agents, all of whom were given a taste of Seychelles hospitality, in a bid to encourage them to increase their Seychelles sales.

Following the road show, however, the Paris STO appears critical of efforts by hotels in Seychelles to attract travel agents, in comparison to the attempts made by Air Seychelles.

In a press release they state, "Air Seychelles grants every year hundreds of free of charge tickets to travel agents for educational trips and, additionally, concedes the attractive travel agent’s rate of Euro 230 return. Regretfully, this latter is not a guaranteed incitation for the simple reason that very few hotels in Seychelles offer corresponding attractive tariffs during the same period."

Following on from the road show the STO, STMA, Air Seychelles, 7° South and Lemuria Resort next hit the water, with a soirée on the Seine.

40 incentive and business travel agents attended the evening event held on board the “bateau mouche” on the River Seine on March 30.

According to the Paris STO the evening's presentation was, "focused on the 'antidote' role of Seychelles against urban stress."

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