Category: Tourism

Air Madagascars’ passengers now can fly Air Seychelles from Mahé to Antananarivo thanks to the code sharing agreements recently signed by the two companies. Air Seychelles uses an Airbus 320 and having two classing with a capacity of 136 seats. About Dhabi or Bombay might bee added to the network of Air Madagascar in the…

Nosy Be has been removed from the orange zone by the Malagasy and French government. The peak tourism season is near and the hotels and lodges have received an increasing number of bookings. This is the result of the efforts of the government and the tourism operators as Nosy Be remains the main beach destination…

Madagascar’s Special Electoral Court has promulgated the list of the elected parliament members on 6th February 2014. As per the Constitution of Madagascar, the new Prime Minister is to be appointed by the strongest party of the parliament. But due to the actual political situation, the trend is going against that fact  for a long…

The endemicity of Madagascar’s biodiversity is one of the world’s reference. Many protected areas have been set up for the conservation of the nature but also for the alleviation of the poverty. The Forestry and Environment Ministry of Madagascar with the supports of UNDP and Global Environment Fund promoted the projet called Managed Resources Protected…

Cactus Tours team is consolidating its 15 years of experience in the tourism and hospitality industry as a Destination Management Company. We are increasing each year the number of guests we receive and also the quality of the services we provide. These can not be done without the devoted team both at the front and…

The World Bank has called of an international bid for a consultancy study regarding the possibility of increasing the number of tourists to visit Madagascar. This will start by the increase of the number of connecting flights to Madagascar. There are about 300,000 tourists visiting Madagascar each year. This number is to be doubled within…

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An increasing number of travellers are getting interested in the sustainable tourism. This are the opinions of the professionals who have participated at the IFTP Top Resa in Paris this year. The stackholders of the tourism sector in Madagascar are committed to make Madagascar a sustainable tourism destination. The sustainable tourism consists of the preservation…

The Vanilla Islands include Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Rodrigues, Reunion and the Comoros. This new concept is very promising as these Islands of the Indian Ocean are reinventing themselves by promoting their common historical past and their exotic vocations as Vanilla Island. Even that vanilla is not endemic to these islands, the quality of their products…