Minister Walter Mzembi, the Zimbabwe Minister responsible for Tourism,
and Minister Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Minister responsible for
Tourism and Culture, met with Carol Hay of the Caribbean Tourism
Organization (CTO) in Madrid. The meeting took place at the
Seychelles stand at FITUR, the tourism trade fair of Spain.
These two ministers of tourism from Africa, who are part of the SADC
working group mandated to look at the restructure of the region`s
RETOSA, are the ones forming part of the committee to propose the road
map on the way forward for the tourism body of the SADC block of
countries. Their meeting with Carol Hay of the Caribbean Tourism
Organization (CTO) was to be updated on the Caribbean experience in
their own tourism grouping.
Both Minister Mzembi of Zimbabwe and Minister St.Ange of the
Seychelles said after the meeting that they had found the meeting
interesting and productive. “Zimbabwe and Seychelles have been mandated
to pan out the way forward for the region`s tourism organization. We are
under a very tight timetable to deliver the roadmap for the way forward
in time for the February 13 Meeting in Cape Town South Africa where the
6-country committee will sit to prepare their recommendations for the
next SADC Ministers meeting scheduled for Livingstone in Zambia.
The 6-country committee is under pressure to have their work
completed within the set timetable to ensure that the SADC Heads of
State August summit is able to consider the recommendations vis-a-vis
RETOSA and tourism in the Southern Africa Region.
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