The handicraft as the recovery engine for tourism15/07/2010 | 15:31:06
The handicraft show, Sehatra, began in the Sport and Culture's Palace of Mahamasina, in Antananarivo on July 15th, as a starting point for recovery after several months of figures in the red.
This sector's recovery is equally a potential good thing for tourism. Both sectors have always been depending of each other in the Great Isle, namely since foreign and national tourists have always been being potential consumers of artisanal products.
Since 2009, handicraft has known its bad days because of the plummeting number of tourists in Madagascar. The national center for handicraft in Madagascar (Cenam) and the ministry for tourism consequently addressed the situation.
Some hundreds of craftsmen contributed to Sehatra 2010 show. "A show to be enjoyed differently while taking care of the environment", so read the theme developed by the promoters.
A department dedicated to hotel business will soon be granted to the University of Toamasina, in Madagascar’s eastern region. The partnership deal was freshly signed to this end between the National Institute for Tourism and Catering International Services. The project is aiming first and foremost at enhancing professional skills and services in the island’s eastern part, which host coastal regions and beaches happening to be the closest to Antananarivo, the capital city. Madagascar’s eastern coast operates like a magnet for quite a few foreigners and thousands of local tourists every year, particularly during school holiday time, namely from July to September[See]
The German-Malagasy Center’s Jazz Club organizes on Sunday, June 17th quite a special show The staircase of Antaninarenina happens to be located at the heart of the capital city, and will serve as concert place for the second edition of the JAZZ TOTOHABATO (translated as Jazz over the stairs).[See]
In the run of the International Tourism Fair’s third conference on tourism hosted by the Carlton Hotel in Antananarivo, the role played by regional and local authorities into the development of tourism was addressed. Several communes together with their partners actually tackled projects and dared investments for the sake of boosting tourism. These investments are expected to create many more job providers within Madagascan village communities.[See]
The band is completely unknown in Madagascar. It will although be entitled to praise the island’s unique fauna and vegetation. Wiffenpoofs is a US-american band made of 14 singers from the University of Yale, and won the casting showdown. The band’s first concert is deemed to take place on July 14th in Ranomafana as part of the sensitization campaign related to the conservation of the Great Isle’s natural wealth. Ranomafana is actually a central southern national park and a sanctuary for scores of the island’s endemic species.[See]
One of the capital city’s district is being named Ambondrona. So is a rock band famed across Antananarivo. Boys band Ambondrona is in for a new adventure. It is planning to recover the stage at the Valbio research center in the heart of Ranomafana National Park on April 21st, as a good way to raise the interest for this often poorly known natural wealth.[See]
Series of tourist reports concerning Madagascar is to be broadcasted in Italy by the beginning of 2012. The show is likely to draw more Italians to the Great Isle. It will focus on seven young ladies´ adventures throughout the Great Isle´s marvels, like the whales, the baobabs, the Tsingy and the white sandy beaches. The touristic branch is expecting substantial profits from the Donnaventura concept in 2012[See]
In a long statement, the professional group gathered within Madagascar´s national office of Tourism makes no secret of its concerns in face of the Air Madagascar airline company´s difficulties of these latest months.[See]
The place called Soatanàna is a cause for a certain interest. "Soatanàna: cultural destination" is the title of researches led by the interdisciplinary Department and the letters department´s professional training in the university of Antananarivo. The researches were brilliantly presented by Razaka Oliva on April 13th.[See]
