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It says in the French Press Agency:
“It’s a disaster.” This is how Sibel Cardon, owner of a hotel in the Seychelles, where the Corona epidemic has reduced the number of tourists needed for the economy of the archipelago, whose population is less than 100,000 people in the Indian Ocean, after the part remained. immune to the virus and its spread, which is accelerating its pace around the world.
Tourism contributes around 25 percent of the country’s GDP, according to official figures, and is, together with the tuna industry, the main source of foreign exchange.
In 2019, the beaches of Seychelles attracted more than 330,000 tourists, two-thirds of them from Europe. In the first three quarters of 2020, just over 75,000 people visited the archipelago. In the second and third quarters, their numbers decreased by about 83 percent from the previous year, a similar decline in the number of business travelers, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
And the airport in the capital Victoria was closed at the end of March to international flights and reopened on August 1, but not all companies have resumed their flights and tourists are arriving at a slow pace.
“Since the airport reopened, we have tried to reopen our institution, but it is a disaster … We are headed for losses because there is no one,” said Sebel Cardon, who is also president of the “Seychelles Hotel and Tourism Association “.
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