Happy Tourism Day 2024, says Alain St.Ange

Alain St.Ange

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On Tourism Day 2024, Alain St.Ange emphasized the importance of unity among tourism professionals to enhance the industry’s efficacy, particularly in times of global conflict, highlighting the need for leadership beyond mere slogans.

As the world at large marks Tourism Day 2024 it remains important to reflect that distractions are thrown out of the window and let the industry professionals dig it to consolidate their industry. “Tourism is an industry and not an activity” said Alain St.Ange, the Tourism Consultant who works wit Tourism Boards and Ministries of Tourism across Main Land Africa and the ASEAN BLOCK, before adding: “An industry we need to see tourism professionals rally to ensure it works. From the highest Office as SG of the UNWTO and not just those working in the private sector trade”.

“‘Tourism & Peace’ is the tag line dedicated to Tourism Day 2024 and this line is of course timely with wars raging on between Ukraine / Russia and Gaza / Israel and in Sudan among other conflicts. But just a new tagline will do little to send the right message into the needed arena. The world of tourism needs more. It needs its tourism professionals heard, it needs its professionals to lead the industry and then the new tagline of Tourism & Peace will be heard clearly and very loudly.”

Alain St.Ange is the Seychelles former Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine who now heads his own ‘Saint Ange Tourism Consultancy’. Many International magazines and press have covered him when he was still in office as the Seychelles Minister responsible for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine but the man, is now more active than ever with tourism consultancy work with Tourism Boards, Ministries of Tourism and the Private Sector Trade across our great continent of Africa and also in the ASEAN Block who has even been contracted by the World Bank to work alongside Ministers of Tourism in Africa to assist in the relook of their tourism industry.

He is remembered for many things among which is the massive increase in visibility for his Seychelles islands which he succeeded through developing a positive relationship with the International Press and by turning the Seychelles into a cultural events-based tourism destination over and above showcasing its key USPs: – sun, sea and sand. He was successful and that translated in recognition by the world of tourism and the press fraternity which in turn helped to deliver increased in visitor arrival numbers. St.Ange and his Team in Seychelles never missed an opportunity in those days to spell out that success was visibility, visibility and visibility because otherwise the destination would simply fade away. He is recognised for never leaving a stone unturned in that mission for Seychelles .

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