Seychelles Tourism Sector Review : Sustaining Growth in a Successful Tourism Destination
The Seychelles tourism sector today is a success story. No doubt, the Seychelles has been endowed with wonderful natural tourism assets in its beautiful beaches and mountain backdrops, but its success has also been due to good governance and strategic policy choices. With 24.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) directly attributable to tourism, the Seychelles must ensure that its tourism sector will continue to be competitive in the long-run. In that context, it will need to make difficult but critical choices about where the sector should be headed and how it should work towards that vision. This review of the Seychelles tourism sector has been conducted as part of a larger Indian ocean regional tourism integration study including similar reports on Mauritius, Comoros, and Madagascar. Each of these provides a brief sector overview that incorporates an up-to-date analysis of the country's tourism performance, highlights some of the sector's key challenges, and provides a select set of recommendations for addressing such challenges. The four sector reviews serve as a foundation for a synthesis policy note that addresses tourism at the regional level. This report is structured as follows: section one gives introduction to the Seychelles study; section two gives overview of the Seychelles tourism sector; section three presents key issues; section four gives recommendations; and section five gives conclusion.
| Summary: | The Seychelles tourism sector today is a
success story. No doubt, the Seychelles has been endowed
with wonderful natural tourism assets in its beautiful
beaches and mountain backdrops, but its success has also
been due to good governance and strategic policy choices.
With 24.8 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) directly
attributable to tourism, the Seychelles must ensure that its
tourism sector will continue to be competitive in the
long-run. In that context, it will need to make difficult
but critical choices about where the sector should be headed
and how it should work towards that vision. This review of
the Seychelles tourism sector has been conducted as part of
a larger Indian ocean regional tourism integration study
including similar reports on Mauritius, Comoros, and
Madagascar. Each of these provides a brief sector overview
that incorporates an up-to-date analysis of the
country's tourism performance, highlights some of the
sector's key challenges, and provides a select set of
recommendations for addressing such challenges. The four
sector reviews serve as a foundation for a synthesis policy
note that addresses tourism at the regional level. This
report is structured as follows: section one gives
introduction to the Seychelles study; section two gives
overview of the Seychelles tourism sector; section three
presents key issues; section four gives recommendations; and
section five gives conclusion. |
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