Le Premier Ministre Adjoint a fait une déclaration au parlement, le 27 juin 2023, concernant la participation de Maurice à la réunion des ministres du Tourisme du G20 qui a eu lieu à Goa en Inde.
Mr Speaker, Sir,
With your permission, I wish to make a Statement to the House further to my participation in the G20 Tourism Ministerial Meeting which was held on 21 and 22 June 2023 in Goa, India.
The House is aware that India has assumed the Presidency of the G20 for the period 01 December 2022 to 30 November 2023.
In line with the usual practice, a few countries are invited by the G20 Presidency as guest countries in the G20 Meetings and Summit. Mauritius is privileged to be one among the few countries which India has invited as a Guest Country to participate in G20 Meetings and Summit this year.
There are different thematic areas which are discussed throughout the G20 Process, and one of them is Tourism.
The G20 India Presidency set up a Tourism Working Group (TWG) to elaborate, with the assistance of the UNWTO, a
“Roadmap for Tourism as a Vehicle for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals”, based on five inter-connected priority areas, namely, Green Tourism, Digitalization, Skills, Tourism micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and Destination Management.
My Ministry was invited to form part of the G20 Tourism Working Group which met on four occasions and these meetings culminated in the G20 Tourism Ministerial Meeting which was chaired by Shri G. Kishan Reddy, Hon. Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of North Eastern Region of India.The Meeting of the Ministers of Tourism of the G20 countries, which I attended, took cognizance of the development by the Tourism Working Group, of the Goa Roadmap for Tourism and agreed to an
“Outcome Document and Chair’s Summary”.Moreover, in the course of the meeting, I had the opportunity to address the Meeting as to the issues and challenges in global tourism and conducted several bilateral consultations to promote Mauritian tourism.
I shall, with your permission, Mr Speaker Sir, arrange for the
“Goa Roadmap”and the“Outcome Document”to be placed in the Library of the National Assembly in due course.
