The Tourism Development Plan released by the Government in 2002, recognized the need for a specified eco-tourism strategy as important to maintaining biological diversity. This was followed by the Tourism Sector Strategy Plan (2009-2015) in 2009, which focuses on achieving an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable tourism sector. Additionally, in 2009, the Ministry of Tourism, Leisure & External Communications released‘Positioning Mauritius in the World’ to...
Issued in support of the five-year review of the Mauritius Strategy of Implementation for the sustainable development of SIDS, the report highlights the vulnerabilities of SIDS and recent trends in their sustainable development.
The key areas covered by the report are:
climate change
disaster management
trade and finance
tourism
energy
natural resources
social development
It also provides a visual summary of progress made by SIDS in attaining the Millennium...