SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan, Tuesday, October 17, 2023
Zambia has asked Seychelles for collaboration on how some the tourism initiatives that have helped sector to grow in the Indian Ocean Island.
Speaking during sidelines of a bilateral meeting between the Seychelles delegation led by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Tourism Silvestre Radegonde and the Zambia delegation at the ongoing UNWTO General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Minister of Tourism Rodney Sikumba said that country’s tourism sector is worth learning considering the good number of tourism arrivals.
The Minister said Zambia will be glad to learn how Seychelles is among the few countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa that have managed to implement the Tourism Satellite Account that is working very well in that country.
He said there is also need to see how some exchange programmes could also be generated between tertiary institutions that are offering training so that they could produce ‘fully-baked’ industry staff.
Mr. Sikumba said against this background there is need for bench-marking programmes between the two countries tourism stakeholders.
And Mr. Radegonde said Seychelles has deliberately created an online boarder control system to help with tourists’ easy passage into the country.
He said there is need to have well trained staff hence the need to have high quality tertiary education for tourism.
Meanwhile, Seychelles Principal Secretary Sherin Francis said there is need to revamp the collaboration of operators that existed between the two countries for free flow of the tourism traffic.
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