Key partners for any viable tourism: the communes

The speaker, Roger Mahazoasy, former Minister of Tourism and current Director of decentralized cooperation department within the Ministry in charge of Decentralization, provided quite a detailed exposal about the involved or to be involved municipalities’ roles, potential and duties into the development of tourism as a whole in Madagascar.

He particularly focused on an analysis of the « think globally but act locally » principle. Were provided specific recommendations, such as the accurate collection of taxes or the need to erect local departments deemed to address tourism related issues in each and every commune.