Haiti seeks ba in the more than four million Haitians living outside the country and regional Caribbean market positioning as a tourist destination and trusted this industry to lift its image and economy, he told Efe the Minister of Tourism, Stéphanie Villedrouin.
The Antillean country was the guest of honor of the Sixteenth Caribbean Tourist Bag, which brings together representatives and authorities from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Central and South America, Mexico, the United States and Europe. it may interest you
Stéphanie Villedrouin, former Minister of Tourism of Haiti, present or at the time the pro yectos of your apartment in this event and signed the country should maintain its focus on the opportunities that tourism can generate for industry, agriculture and other sectors that, thanks to the income that came from this sector, would be able to get up and contribute to a better economic performance.
For Villedrouin, would be key members of the diaspora, about four million Haitians living abroad, among whom is looking for tourists who wish to visit your country tourist regions that already existed, and l interest of the Government ba focuses also in business trips, the one practiced by the representatives of the numerous non-governmental organizations present in the country and, above all, those of the multinationals to which the Executive intends to persuade them to invest in Haiti.
Along with this, he said, the people who would come to do leisure tourism , would also end up going to invest, because she understood that the Haiti of those days was a land of opportunities . But what has happened since I made those affirmations positive and optimistic.
To this he added in his reference the importance of the existence of suitable places for tourist developments. S eñaló the minister, who mentioned an agreement in this regard with the National Fund for Tourism Development (Fonatur) of Mexico.
The Caribbean country registered in 2010 the arrival of some 250,000 tourists and in 2011 about 310,000. The Haitian Government proposed a gradual growth and in 2014 achieve to add 3,500 rooms to the current 2,500.
In Haiti, 80 percent of the nearly ten million people live in extreme poverty, with less than two dollars a day, mostly in Port-au-Prince, the capital. This reality contributes to generate prejudices that hinder the boost to tourism .
In the words of the minister in that interview, the people had no idea that Haiti had beautiful beaches and has an interesting craft, that It has a very dignified population, and that is because of the bad reputation of the last fifteen years, because of the political problems and the earthquake , which caused a lot of destruction , I point out .
However, his department would work to clearly spread the message that the earthquake did not destroy all of Haiti, it was a part, there are areas, like the south, that were not affected.
- We have infrastructure projects, airports so that customers can get directly to those areas without going through the capital . These projects are joined by an image campaign that counts among its main axes with the dissemination of a newly created logo to promote Haitian tourism , those were some of his statements to highlight things that Haiti would be worth visiting .
