iciHaiti - Tourism : 350 schoolchildren made aware of tourism professions
As part of the 3rd edition of the Week of Tourism Professions, which took place around the theme "Discovering Tourism Trades : Challenges and Opportunities !" » 350 students from NS3 and NS4 from schools: Lycée Jean-Jacques (Avenue Christophe); Lycée Benoît Batraville (Laboule 13) and the Institut Georges Marc (Avenue N), have been made aware of tourism trades by professionals in the sector.
The objective of this annual activity was to allow the various stakeholders to share with the participants the advantages and opportunities offered by the tourism industry and to help the participants to become better acquainted with each link in the tourism trades, but above all to offer them an overview of the tourism sector, leading them to take a short tour of the various professions that drive this dynamic and cross-cutting sector.
According to the speakers, the tourism sector represents a major asset for economic development and the exceptional pole of attraction by the quality and variety of cultural, heritage and natural wealth available to a country like Haiti. This sector is a real lever for economic development, job creation and land use planning.
