Like the events organized for Easter celebrations in some major cities, Mahajanga highlighted its potential. It held.
Encourage domestic tourists to choose the flowers City. This is the challenge faced by the organizers of "Mahajanga celebrates", concocted an event for Easter celebrations. "The objective is to score domestic tourism that is rarely discussed and we tend to forget", Toky Armel explains Ranjatonantenaina, Director of the Office of Tourism Boeny (ORTB). "Why always hire foreigners to visit a city like Mahajanga, while residents are also tourists ", Has he said at the launch of the racing canoes, last Sunday, beside Mahajanga. "Is regarded as tourist one who moves from its usual place to visit another city, another region, and expenditure on travel, hotels and restaurants ", says he.
The latest figures from domestic tourists reported in Mahajanga are reporting 15 137 residents and 8 126 non-residents. "These figures do not take account of visitors staying in schools and other infrastructures", says the director of ORTB.
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"Mahajanga party" will continue again until Saturday. He started the 14 April by a great carnival where discussed to show a cheerful and welcoming city. The canoe race between 20 boatmen drew the world, as well as the race rickshaw. A festival where seafood product prices fell for a few days, a photo exhibition on "Face Mahajanga" the French Alliance and a demonstration of "show case", collection and speed racing cars are marking the Flower City.
"A required bet for the influx of tourists from the capital, d’Antsirabe, Fianarantsoa and Ambatondrazaka shows that the city moves ", se Félicité le Mokhtar Andriantomanga. Means-end hotels are busy near 80% according to the Office of Tourism Boeny. The beaches are crowded and it is an exercise to find restaurants for lunch. The initiative of this kind, however, raises questions about the progress of the implementation of the tourism observatory. A tool in gestation for 2015,
to obtain reliable statistics on the behavior, the number and needs of tourists, domestic and foreign.
Miran Ihariliva
Source : http://madagascar-actualites.com/mahajanga-en-fete-redynamiser-le-tourisme-interieur/