Nautical Tourism At The ISLV: Assessment And Prospects For Development

Tourism Minister Nicole Bouteau met Raymond Yeddou, administrator of the Windward Islands and the Leeward Islands, at the Ministry of Tourism in a meeting on nautical tourism.
The meeting was attended by David Dolique, Deputy Head of the Administrative Subdivision, and André Bihannic, Director General of CCISM, with Patricia Hart, Head of the Leeward Islands CCISM Antenna,
The 1 ^eras “Nautical Tourism Meetings islands Sous-le-Vent” were initiated in December 2010. They were followed by a series of meetings involving all Raromatai Commons, actors, services of State, from the country until the organization of the 2 ^nd  “Meetings” in March 2012.
Considering that nautical tourism (international yachting, charter nautical, luxury yachting) is an undeniable economic asset for the archipelago, a program has been developed in common, addressing both the needs to federate the players, infrastructures to develop , The training to be decentralized, the awareness and the communication to be carried out. Over the last five years, several actions have been carried out.
This meeting provided an opportunity to clarify all the training and communication activities carried out and infrastructures that were jointly financed by the State and the country under the previous project contract .
The debates highlighted and identified various issues that can arise from the growth of the various segments of nautical tourism, which today represents almost 8% of the total economic impact of tourism, and up to 25% to 30 % If one adds the segment of the cruise (liner). The importance of the flows concerned, which practically doubled between 2012 and 2016, calls on the public authorities notably to organize the maritime area and the possible regulation of activities in the lagoons.
The Minister hoped that the synergies and dynamics that have enabled the development of nautical tourism can be fully activated again to allow a constructive structuring of the nautical and maritime sectors.
A first meeting with the communes of the Leeward Islands is to be organized soon to discuss these subjects and to consider with them the modalities of a second phase of multiannual action which could be formalized on the occasion of the 3 ^The “Nautical Tourism Meetings in the Leeward Islands” before the end of 2017.
(Source: Tahiti News Tourism 19 June 2017)