UNCTAD to hold West-African Roundtable session on e-Tourism
The UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) will from today July 19, 2011 hold a roundtable section to discuss e-tourism in West Africa in Bamako, Mali.
According to UNCTAD, the discussion is to “enable and improve shared understanding, strategic diagnostic and policy responses to development challenges in the field of e-tourism in West-Africa.”
Key issues to be discussed, UNCTAD says are immediate improvements in e-tourism solutions, competitive business models and schemes towards a joint national solution, building public-private partnerships, transferability of national success-factors, distribution of e-tourism solutions regionally and locally and combining e-tourism strategies with external development sponsors and projects.
At the end of the meeting, UNCTAD will assess peculiarities and commonalities on e-tourism among targeted countries, share knowledge on process of building the partnerships and structures supporting e-tourism and an action plan which will increase e-tourism cooperation at national and sub regional levels.
The three day meeting starts from July 19 to 21, 2011.
It will be attended by high level officials from the West African sub-region, UNCTAD said.
By Ekow Quandzie