{"id":21164,"date":"2013-05-12T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/south-africa-and-seychelles-ministers-back-africa-tourism-2\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T03:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T03:59:00","slug":"south-africa-and-seychelles-ministers-back-africa-tourism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/05\/south-africa-and-seychelles-ministers-back-africa-tourism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa and Seychelles ministers back Africa tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forimmediaterelease.net\/userimages\/9\/20130510-1905_o.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.forimmediaterelease.net\/userimages\/9\/20130510-1905_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">South Africa and Seychelles Ministers of Tourism on the<br \/>popular SABC2 Morning Live TV program as<br \/>INDABA Tourism Trade Fair opens in Durban<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/forimmediaterelease.net\/\">Forimmediaterelease.net<\/a>)  South Africa\u2019s Tourism Minister, Mr. Marthinus van Schalkwyk, and his  Seychelles counterpart, Mr. Alain St.Ange, the island\u2019s Minister  responsible for Tourism and Culture, were both on the popular SABC2  Morning Live TV program on Friday. This South Africa Broadcasting  Corporation channel is a popular TV program with a big nationwide  following.<\/p>\n<p>The live interview filmed at the Heritage&amp;Cultural Pavilion at the  Durban Exhibition Center was the opportunity for the Tourism Ministers  from South Africa and the Seychelles to discuss strategic partnerships  between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Minister van Schalkwyk of South Africa spoke about the importance of  INDABA, the African Tourism Trade Fair that is staged annually in  Durban, and Minister St.Ange of the Seychelles on his part said that the  time had arrived for this tourism fair to be seen at the African  Tourism Fair where Africa as a whole showcases itself to the world.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Alain St.Ange also said that Africa must work with Africa if  Africa is to be strong and attract its fair share of the tourism trade.  The Seychelles Minister used the opportunity of that live television  interview to present his island\u2019s unique double coconut, called the  Coco-de-Mer, to the South African Minister accompanied by a \u201cSeychelles,  the Coco-de-Mer\u201d book written and published by the Minister himself.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk announced the planned signature of an  MOU between Seychelles and South Africa in August which is set to  reinforce the existing partnership and cooperation between the two  countries. This same statement was also stressed on by the Seychelles  Minister Alain St.Ange as he announced the recent codeshare agreement  between South African Airlines (SAA) and Air Seychelles, making it  possible for South Africans to travel to Seychelles with an SAA airline  ticke<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa and Seychelles Ministers of Tourism on thepopular SABC2 Morning Live TV program asINDABA Tourism Trade Fair opens in Durban (Forimmediaterelease.net) South Africa\u2019s Tourism Minister, Mr. Marthinus van Schalkwyk, and his Seychelles counterpart, Mr. Alain St.Ange, the island\u2019s Minister responsible for Tourism and Culture, were both on the popular SABC2 Morning Live TV program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indaba-2013"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}