Pursuits
Clove-Exporting Archipelago Targets Tourism to Boost Growth
- Comoros seeks advice from Mauritius to become key destination
- AfDB sees tourism offering significant opportunity to Comoros
Mayotte, Comoros.
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Comoros, an Indian Ocean archipelago that depends on cloves and vanilla for most of its export earnings, plans to develop its tourism industry to accelerate growth, President Azali Assoumani said.
The country, situated off the east coast of Africa, wants to become a “tourism destination of choice,” Assoumani, 57, said in an interview Monday on arrival at Mauritius’s main international airport. He plans to hold talks with authorities in Mauritius to learn how that country generates $1.6 billion of foreign-exchange income from the industry.