Maurice

Pour l’année,2011, l’objectif de l’office du tourisme mauricien est d’atteindre 982 000 arrivées de touristes. Ce qui représenterait une augmentation de 5 % par rapport à 2010 puisque de janvier à décembre 2010 934 827 touristes ont visité l’île Maurice.

L’île Maurice offre une grande diversité de produits pour attirer les touristes : tourisme vert, spa, plongée…

L’île de La Réunion a connu en 2009 une progression de sa fréquentation touristique de 6,4%, soit 25 500 touristes de plus qu’en 2008, pour atteindre les 421 900 touristes (dont 8 sur 10 sont originaires de France continentale).

The drop in tourism in Mauritius - tourism is the primary source of income from the island - is increasingly felt since the beginning of 2009. This is not surprising given the global economic crisis.

The Fourth Festival of sugarcane will be inaugurated on Thursday August 7 at Beau Plan, Mauritius, and will last four days. Major annual cultural event of Adventure sugar, the Festival brings together each year about 5000 people.

Supported by a campaign by mail that was sent to millions of subscribers on Thursday "Play with Simon offers as first prize a trip of 9 days to Mauritius for 2 people worth 3000 euros TTC. End of the Game: July 31.

Mauritius has exhibited since Saturday 10 May at the Indaba Tourism Fair in Durban, on the south east coast of South Africa.

This will be the fourth destination of Air Mauritius in India after Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai.
Eleven tour operators and travel agents in India have come to Mauritius to raise awareness of Bangalore to Mauritius on the one hand, and discover the island of Mauritius on the other.

Maha Shivaratree is the biggest festival celebrated by the Hindu community of Mauritius. According to the lunar calendar, it takes place without the Moon in the month of phalguna or March 5 this year in honor of the god Shiva. Come to the sacred lake of Grand Bassin (south-west of the island)., Devout destination on the pilgrimage which begins Maha Shivaratree on the road to "Bois Chéri".

Mauritius has set itself the goal of two million tourists in 2015. Jean Claude de l'Estrac, president of the Empowerment Program, said:
"The country has neither the means nor the resources nor the capacity managers to achieve the goal of two million tourists by 2015. It is impossible. The government and the Ministry of Tourism can not afford, "says Jean Claude de L'Estrac, executive director of La Sentinelle Ltd and Chairman of the Empowerment Program. It occurred in the context of the conference "Smile upon 2015" at Plaza.