MTPA thanks partners for support

Tourism key to Mauritian economy
2020-03-24
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On behalf of the Mauritius Tourism Promotion Authority (MTPA), Arvind Bundhun, the director has released an official statement to express his gratitude and continued support of its tourism partners in the country.

“As Mauritius is going through its first days of national lockdown, the MTPA wanted to reassure its partners in the tourism sector of its total support in this period of crisis resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

In his message, Bundhun recalls the importance of the sector in the Mauritian economy and the role played by the stakeholders of the industry in its development. “Tourism is a provider of about 100,000 direct and indirect jobs, yielding around MUR 64 billion (USD 1.62 billion) and contributing to 10 pc of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Mauritius”.

He wanted to acknowledge the operators who made courageous decisions and responded to the appeal of the country. “I want to thank the hotels that accepted to host people in quarantine as well as the operators who transported them; the air sector as a whole and Air Mauritius in particular which continues to ensure the operations so that our visitors can go back to their country”.

He highlighted that the “minister of finance has come up with a series of support measures with the main objective to preserve jobs because the backbone of the Mauritius tourism sector is its human resources”. He is confident that the Mauritian destination will come out of this crisis stronger and announced that his team is already working with partners for “joint aggressive campaigns to increase the visibility of the destination, to remind that we are still a dream destination”.

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