The continent’s tourism potential is untapped due to the lack of development in many countries, he says, particularly in areas such as transport, accommodation and food standards. However, he is satisfied that the challenge of infrastructure is ‘slowly being dealt with’ by African governments and regional bodies. He cites the success of the Southern African Development Community, of which the Seychelles is part, in catalysing the tourism success of Kenya, Botswana and the ‘highly developed’ Namibia. ‘The numbers are not huge, and we’ve not been doing a lot of marketing, but the waves are steadily growing,’ he says. ‘It’s a matter of time before you see tourism in Africa take hold and grow exponentially.’Read next:

Source: The North Africa Journal February 05, 2020 16:07 UTC