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.