Collection of tourist vignettes at the entrance to the borders by Hotel ★★★ Restaurant gourmand coconut Lodge Majunga.
Collection of tourist vignettes at the entrance to the borders by Hotel ★★★ Restaurant gourmand coconut Lodge Majunga.
The national Office of tourism is planning to collect tourist thumbnails at the entrance of borders.
Its amount shall be 10 euros by non-resident.
Collect the tourism vignette border : This is the strategy the national Office of tourism of Madagascar (ONTM) plans to be implemented from next year. The objective is to facilitate and optimize the collection of this resource for the promotion of the Madagascar destination. Its amount is also revised upwards and standardized to 10 euros for each non-resident Madagascar travellers wishing to enter the country. Special counters will be so implemented in ports and airports of the country to deal only with this sticker collection.
"For the moment, It's a project whose sole objective is to equip the ONTM with a budget that will allow it to fully assume its role of promoter of the Madagascar destination. It must be adopted and amended in the Finance Act 2016 », has specified, yesterday, Eric Koller, President of the ONTM, at a meeting with the press.
The main challenge with the introduction of this new system is not to weigh down further formalities already complicated at the entrance to the borders, particularly at the Ivato airport. Each arrival of Jumbo, the small Terminal and the immigration department are saturated, causing a long queue which often overflow to the outside of the small building. According to Vola Lawal, Executive Director of the ONTM, the collection point could be combined with the issuance of visa service where the new visa fee is also paid from 20 EUR.
Aid halted
"We are aware of the problems that already exist and are considering to further aggravate.. Now that we also have services to be performed, We can increase the number of box and increase the number of people that welcome travelers., She said.
So far, the ONTM works almost only with the support of donors such as the Agence française de développement (AFD). The rate recovery of the tourism vignette collected by hotels and which constitutes its only internal resource reaches barely 40 %.
With the political crisis which had caused the judgment of international aid, and more particularly in 2015, He was confronted to problems of operation unprecedented, forcing him even to give up some international lounges. This year, for example, the budget of the ONTM intended for the promotion, had reached barely 400 000 euro against 15 EUR million for a country like Mauritius and 5 million euros for Seychelles. On the other side, attendance at a single show as the Top Resa in Paris requires up to 60 000 EUR. "But the situation was.", at least, the merit of we have opened our eyes to the fragility of the ONTM resources and the need to seek new sources of funding., has confessed stolen Lawal.
by Hôtel★★★ Restaurant gourmand Coco Lodge Majunga.
