11.24.07
World Travel Market hosts Seychelles delegation in London
Vice-President of Seychelles Joseph Belmont left the country for official mission to the World Travel Market (WTM) in London. The WTM is the largest annual travel show in the UK and one of the largest in Europe that was held on November 12-15, 2007.
Vice-President Belmont, in his capacity as the minister responsible for tourism, was leading a delegation that consisted of over 40 travel professionals representing over 20 companies and organisations from Seychelles. The delegation also included chairman and CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) Maurice Loustau-Lalanne and other representatives of the STB.
A yearly business-to-business fair that concluded the event on November 15 attracted more than 45 000 travel professionals from more than 200 countries and regions.
Year 2007 was the 1st time Seychelles was represented at WTM by its new “Another World†brand. The new brand was launched earlier in 2007 at the ITB fair in Berlin, Germany.
It should be noted here that visitor arrivals from the UK and Ireland have shown an increase of 9% so far in 2007, which is a remarkable turnaround after a 3-year decline for the market until 2006.