The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) hosted its 2018 mid-year marketing meeting on Monday June 25, at the Eden Bleu Hotel. The meeting brought together the local tourism trade partners and STB’s overseas representatives and local staff. The STB Chief Executive, Sherin Francis, provided an update of the tourism industry’s performance for the first half of 2018, including the trend in ...

A group of 35 individuals from Mahe, Praslin and La Digue, venturing into the tour guiding business, have completed a three-day basic tour guiding course. They received their certificates from the hands of the Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports & Marine, Didier Dogley, in a ceremony held on Friday June 22, 2018. The training provided to prospective tour guides ...

The Minister for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine, Didier Dogley, led the Seychelles delegation to the 61st UNWTO Regional Commission meeting for Africa and ‘Tourism Statistics: A Catalyst For Development’ Seminar. This was held in Abuja, Nigeria, from June 4 to 6, 2018. Minister Dogley was accompanied by the Tourism Department’s Principal Secretary, Anne Lafortune, the Director for Policy, ...

Alexander Jovanovic emerged as the winner of this year’s Facebook Photography competition organised by the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB). His photo obtained the most likes in the final voting. The photo captioned ‘A spicy slow cooked kari koko zourit [octopus curry cooked with coconut milk] bursting with flavour as it is spilling out of the nautilus shell, perched on black ...

For two weeks, eye-catching images of the Seychelles Islands kept turning heads at two prime and busy railway stations in central London. The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) was running a promotional drive at the Euston Station and King’s Cross railway station. The campaign, which ran until Sunday June 3, allowed both tube and rail passengers to dream of a tropical ...

The Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) partnered with the Travstarz Global Group, to conduct a three-city roadshow in the Indian cities of Ludhiana, Indore and Baroda. STB was represented by Aswini Krishna and Shakambri Soni from its representation office in India, while Travstarz was represented by Hema Manghnani, Ramanpreet Singh and Vani Singh. The well-attended roadshow stimulated much interest and enthusiasm ...

Tourism stakeholders involved in the consultative process to review and update the Tourism Master Plan 2012-2020 met in a validation workshop at Eden Bleu last week. The aim of the workshop was to discuss, validate findings and recommendations, as well as to receive feedbacks, before the finalization of the draft document. This follows a number of meetings that have been ...

After six days of rigorous sailing, combined with a discovery of the amazing beauty of the Seychelles Islands, the fourth edition of the Seychelles Regatta came to an end on Saturday June 2, 2018. The prize giving and closing ceremony was held in a friendly atmosphere at Beau Vallon’s La plage Restaurant, bringing together all of the participants, organisers and ...

The fourth edition of the Seychelles Regatta sailing competition entered its third day on Wednesday, with nine boats vying to be declared the champions at the end of the race on Saturday. For the third leg on Wednesday, the nine boats sailed from Praslin Island going around Curieuse in a change of itinerary, as Cousine was originally featured on today’s ...

The Tourism Department is initiating a training programme for people desiring to operate their own small tourism establishments. The department is collaborating with the Seychelles Tourism Academy (STA) and Seychelles Hospitality and Tourism Association (SHTA) to develop the proposed training. Diana Quatre from the Tourism Department, Murla Gabriel from STA, Sybille Cardon and Louise Testa from SHTA, as well as ...