Dr Jens Boyd, the Commercial Director Long Haul for Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor Flugdienst GmbH has come out with his support for the Seychelles Candidate Alain St.Ange for the post of Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO).
Dr Jens Boyd of Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor writes:-
aTP- Arab tourism portal News- Germany’s CONDOR“As a leading European Leisure Airlines Group, we are happy to share our experience in working with former Minister Alain St.Ange of the Seychelles, with whom we were able to successfully grow tourism flows from Central Europe to his home country, and to the Indian Ocean Islands in general.
Alain has built an efficient national tourism board organization, established several events to draw global attention and rallied all local agencies and interest groups behind the objective of bringing more tourists to Seychellois shores.
The best tourist leaders are working along the same lines, and this certainly puts him in the top league by global comparison.
What has set him apart from even that crowd in our eyes is an all-encompassing view to tourism development that does not stop at his own shores.
Alain was actively promoting trips across multiple Indian Ocean Island nations or combinations with mainland Africa, seeing the benefits that a bigger Indian Ocean tourism can bring to all islands.
The Vanilla Islands initiative is a pinnacle achievement in that respect; and with the help of Alain and that initiative we were also able to increase out capacity to Mauritius.
Furthermore, as direct air access is and remains a critical part to developing tourism, Alain was an attentive listener and driver of a new national air services regime that allowed not only us, but also other carriers to build new air connections to the Seychelles.
His willingness and ability to identify the critical issues, to discuss them with the various private and political parties, and to find mutually agreeable solutions in a broader context have set him apart from most other tourism leaders we work with. Not least his personality and energy were a key building stone in this success.
We wish him all the best for his candidacy for the UNWTO, and hope that he will bring this personality and energy to furthering tourism across the globe”.
Alain St.Ange, the Seychelles Candidate for SG of the UNWTO has welcomed this latest endorsement coming from the Thomas Cook Group Airlines Condor Flugdienst GmbH, a leading European Leisure Airlines Group. “Tourism is a global industry.
It goes beyond our own borders and definitely way beyond our own continent’s borders.
Recognition from the World of Tourism and today from a leading European Leisure Airlines Group is very encouraging as the Seychelles bid for the post of Secretary General of UNWTO gains momentum” said Alain St.Ange before adding that with his – Tourism for All – campaign line he will work tirelessly to make tourism the industry with equal opportunities for everyone immaterial of the colour of the skin.
ethnic background, religious beliefs, political affiliation, any disability or sexual orientation.
“This is the Seychelles commitment behind its bid for the Secretary General of the UNWTO” St.Ange said.
Support for the Seychelles Candidate St.Ange continues to grow by the day.
The Seychelles Candidate has already received Letters of Endorsement from President Danny Faure of the Seychelles, from Sir James Mancham, Seychelles founding President who wrote an open letter about his support for the Seychelles St.Ange bid for the United Nations just a week before he passed away.
the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands Organisation (Comoros, Mayotte, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion and Seychelles), the Africa Ports Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA).
Tanzania Society of Travel Agents (TASOTA), the Seychelles Hospitality and Tourism Association (SHTA), Fred W. Finn.
the World’s Most Travelled Person Guinness World Records, the Seychelles Hindu Kovil Sangam Association, India’s important N.R.I. Welfare Society.
the Creole Travel Services of Seychelles and the Association of Tourism Professionals of Mauritius.
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.(ATP), Eden Island Seychelles, Bea Broda the known Producer/Writer/Host/Speaker from the Americas who wrote: One candidate that stands out to me is Alain St.Ange, the former Minister of Tourism of Seychelles.
In the seven years that I have been familiar with his work.
I have witnessed the extraordinary dedication, enthusiasm and visionary brilliance that resulted in his enormous success in this role.
St.Ange took a relatively small island nation in the middle of the Indian Ocean.
and created a way to bring Seychelles to the forefront of global attention.
with the enactment of the Carnaval International de Victoria.
This international event experienced six years of success, not only bringing interest and tourism to the nation, but proudly unifying all of the people who live there towards a common goal.
