UN / AFRICA TOURISM REPORT

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development issued “The Economic Development in Africa Report 2017: Tourism for Transformative and Inclusive Growth” which examines the role that tourism can play in Africa’s development process. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:33
• Production Date: 5 July 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT - UNCTAD
• Subject Topical: ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; TOURISM
• Geographic Subject: AFRICA
• MAMS Id: 1924412
• Parent Id: 1924412
• Alternate Title: unifeed170705b

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STORY: UN / AFRICA TOURISM REPORT
TRT: 1:33
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 5 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Med shot, UN flag at UN Headquarters

5 JULY 2017, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Close up, Carpentier showing report
4. Cutaway, reporters
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, UNCTAD’s New York office:
“Tourism is growing in Africa. However, it could create much more impacts in terms of GDP growth for the country, the countries of Africa, especially if we could include indirect revenues linked to tourism, which are now limited as well as increasing for sub-Saharan Africa the international arrival. The good news is a lot of the tourism is now led by the Africans themselves right now.”
6. Cutaway, slides from report
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Chantal Line Carpentier, Chief, UNCTAD’s New York office:
“It is important to grow the local and regional businesses, to reduce the leakages. So often times if the international arrivals are from international airlines, international travel agencies, international providers, that means the money gets repatriated back home in the countries of origin of those businesses as oppose to stay locally. And therefore it is important to grow the local business to ensure that a lot of these new investments and these returns do stay in the country and get reinvested in infrastructure.”
8. Cutaway, slides from report

Storyline

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development issued “The Economic Development in Africa Report 2017: Tourism for Transformative and Inclusive Growth” which examines the role that tourism can play in Africa’s development process.

Presenting the report to journalists in New York Wednesday (5 Jul) Chantal Line Carpentier, chief of UNCTAD’s New York office, said the tourism is growing in Africa.

On continent level, in period 2011 to 2014, the tourism sector attracted some USD 26 million, contributing with 8.5 percent of GDP, rising from 6.8 percent in period of 1995 – 1998.

In terms of its contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), employment and trade, tourism is an important sector in many African economies. However, most African countries still face significant challenges and constraints in exploiting the potential of tourism services in trade and economic development.

As a way forward, Carpentier said “it is important to grow the local and regional businesses, to reduce the leakages” meaning growing local and regional businesses “to ensure that a lot of these new investments and these returns do stay in the country and get reinvested in infrastructure” instead of going back to the countries of origin of international tourist agencies and providers.

The report focuses on on enhancing the role that tourism can play in socioeconomic development, poverty alleviation, trade, fostering regional integration and structural transformation.

To achieve all of this, UNCTAD says Africa must tackle key impediments to developing the tourism sector, such as weak intersectoral linkages.