Seychelles’ Alain St. Ange Arrives in Madrid for FITUR 2017
Alain St. Ange, the Seychelles Candidate for the position of Secretary General of the UNWTO left Seychelles, arrived in Madrid Tuesday to present his official documents and formalize his candidature.
The former Minister of the Seychelles responsible for Tourism, Civil Aviation, Ports and Marine said as he was leaving Seychelles that his working visit to Madrid falls during FITUR, the Tourism Trade Fair of Spain which gives him a great opportunity to network with Tourism Ministers coming from the Community of Nations.
"Apart from presenting my official documents as the Seychelles Candidate for the post of Secretary General for the UNWTO, I have also organized one on one interviews with a number of press. On Tuesday the 17th I will join Tourism Ministers invited to a reception by His Majesty the King of Spain and I will also be attending the 2017 edition of the annual INVESTOUR conference where Africa meets Europe" said Alain St. Ange to a Kenyan Press following up on an earlier release announcing his candidature.
Alain St. Ange of the Seychelles is joining the race for the top job in tourism and will be facing candidates from Georgia, Brazil, Korea and Zimbabwe. "It is a position under the umbrella of the UN. It is a democratic electoral process and every candidate are only after the best for the tourism industry. Candidate all know each other and have all interacted together as they have all been Tourism Ministers at one point in time. Member States of the UNWTO will elect who they see as the best person for the job. This is the normal course of action" said St. Ange.
Seychelles is one of very few countries where English and French are both official languages and St. Ange is coming forward as a candidate who worked in the private sector for many years become joining the Government as a Minister. He has been a strong advocate on public-private partnership for the tourism industry of Seychelles and this has helped him steer the industry with a lot of success.
