Promoting Tourism to Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands

(Photo: Reidar Dieserud)

Amila de Saram Larssen and Reidar Dieserud

Sustainable tourism has great potential to improve income and quality of life for the poor in the developing world.  Recently, 10 African countries including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana, Malawi, Madagascar, Namibia, Mauritius and Egypt were in Scandinavia to promote outbound travel from Scandinavia to Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands.

Here is what some of the participants of Spotlight on Africa and Indian Ocean had to say about tourism in their countries, sustainable tourism and tourism as an engine for socio-economic growth and poverty alleviation.

Jacinta Nzioka of the Kenya Tourist Board, Nairobi.

Sujit Shah of Breezes, Zanzibar

Rung Button of ITT-International Travel and Tours, South Africa