Prime Minister of Cabo Verde launches “Tourism Operational Programme” aimed at boosting the sector
The Prime Minister of Cabo Verde Ulisses Correia e Silva has launched in São Lourenço dos Órgãos, the Operational Tourism Program (POT) as an accelerator of growth and a boost to employment and as a transforming and reliable sector in the resumption of tourist flow.
As a strategic part of the executive’s program for tourism, the POT is based on a model of tourism growth anchored on sustainability, preservation of the country’s natural, cultural, heritage, and human resources, as an added value for the construction of a resilient and sustainable tourism product.
The program also aims at a diversified tourism product in all islands and municipalities.
Ulisses Correia e Silva said that with this program we are at a point of arrival and departure regarding the transformation that is intended to be introduced in the tourism sector, strongly impacted by the pandemic, convinced that tourism is one of the sectors that will recover most quickly, as long as there is a return to flow and confidence.
“We are ensuring that this recovery is not the same as what existed before, but that it is even better, in relation to everything that Cabo Verde can offer for the development of sustainable tourism and that it is in fact an accelerator of development, which has an impact on economic growth”, said the Head of Government.
