Different sectors of the Seychelles business community are realizing the importance of the annual carnival that is staged in the islands and have upped their own support in differed ways and means.
Walter Confait and his advertising agency of Anse Aux Pins on Mahe has offered the Seychelles Tourism Board to have a double-sided traveling billboard right up to carnival day. The offer was welcomed by the carnival organizers, and for the last couple of days the white pick-up truck has been seen all over Victoria and Mahe itself with the poster “Carnival Time in the Seychelles.”
It was Alain St.Ange, CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board, who set the pickup on its promotional runs from the Board’s Head Office at Bel Ombre. “The carnival is an event for Seychelles. It is an event for every Seychellois, and it is so nice to see members of the business community come forward with fresh and new ideas to help increase the visibility of the event that is set to remain the biggest event organized in Seychelles,” Alain St.Ange said.
Recently, Emirates included a promotional page in their February issue of their worldwide in-flight magazine, pushing the carnival in the Seychelles. The islands’ major newspapers are now regularly publishing articles aimed at updating the Seychelles population on the carnival set to start on March 2 in Victoria.
