Seychelles tourism arrivals surpass 2022 forecast
Seychelles has reached another important milestone in its tourism
industry with the arrival of over 258,000 visitors from January to date.
This exceeds the target set this year, two months ahead of the year’s end. At the beginning of the year, the Seychelles Tourism Department had set their planned growth between 218,000 and 258,000 visitors, with the latter being the best-case scenario and the former being the worst-case.
The achievement is the result of the continuous efforts of the tourism industry’s local and international partners, the principal secretary of Tourism, Mrs. Sherin Francis, has said.
“With these 258,000 visitors, we have now attained 89% of the 2019 arrival numbers, exceeding our expectations. In our January predictions, we had considered that the ‘Revenge Travel’ trend, which started in 2021, would keep our visitors’ arrival numbers high for the year. With other external factors, such as the Russia-Ukraine war, and inflation in Europe, we feared that our numbers would be restricted to the January estimate,” said Mrs. Francis.
