Strong attendance at Vanilla Islands stand at World Travel Market

The stands of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands are very busy at this year’s World Travel Market (WTM) 2015 being held at Excel London.

The stands of the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands are very busy at this year’s World Travel Market (WTM) 2015 being held at Excel London. The Vanilla Islands tourism body is expecting a good trend for the months to come based on the activity happening now at WTM.

After announcing a 12% increase across all the inter-islands since the start of the year, the Vanilla Islands continues with their activity program under the presidency of Xavier-Luc Duval, the Deputy Prime Minister and Tourism Minister of Mauritius.

Respect for the environment, the involvement of local populations, and cultural development are among the criteria that form the basis of Vanilla Islands’ tourism.

The director of the association, Pascal Viroleau, suggests that tourism stakeholders who have, or wish to create cultural, fair trade, and cooperative products which support ecotourism, should join forces with the Vanilla Islands: “We wish to put the Indian Ocean in a stronger position with regard to these issues, by helping the stakeholders to involve themselves in inter-island products, and to increase their turnover.”

The Vanilla Islands is an organization that promotes the Indian Ocean islands: Comoros, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Reunion Island and Seychelles

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