Africa-Press – Cape verde. The Government aims to obtain certification of Boa Vista and Sal with the Sustainability seal from the Global Sustainability Council Destination, revealed the Minister of Tourism and Transport at the signing of the Sustainability Pact for Tourism.
José Luís Sá Nogueira was speaking at the presentation and signing ceremony of the Sustainability Pact for Tourism, which ended on the evening of Friday the 4th, where the Integrated Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability project in the Tourism Sector of the islands of Sal and Boa Vista was also presented.
As well as the document of the pact itself, whose signature the governor considers to be a step towards the development of tourism.
“With the signing of the Sustainability Pact for the Tourism Sector on the island of Boa Vista, we are taking a fundamental step and contribution to the development of tourism, which we all desire with plans, objectives, goals and concrete results for due public, transparent and responsible monitoring and follow-up”, said José Luís Sá Nogueira.
To achieve this ambitious goal, the minister cited some initiatives and programs that the Government has been implementing, with emphasis on the Tourism Operational Program (POT), which places sustainability at the center of its actions, and now also the signing of the Sustainability Pact in Boa Vista.
Although the minister recognizes that the dominant tourism model in Cape Verde has been the subject of several analyses, requiring permanent monitoring of the situation, and that insularity affects the ability to be part of the global supply chain, since import costs considerably limit the country’s competitiveness in the tourism industry.
He believes that the Government, the public sector, the private sector, local authorities, private operators, NGOs, civil society organizations and local communities are armed with great hope in a strategy and action coordinated between all tourism and sustainability agents on the island of Boa Vista.
And that the impact of the Sustainability Pact is seen as a collective commitment, it must be transformational, in the sense of catalyzing paradigm shifts towards a low-carbon and climate-resilient future.
During his speech, the governor took the opportunity to announce the imminent start of the competition for two “crucial” projects for the island, the Boa Vista Sanitary Project, with financing already secured, and the extension and lighting of the runway at Aristides Pereira International Airport, later this year.
The Tourism Sustainability Program project is part of the V Joint Cooperation Agreement and the Advanced Cooperation Agreement between the Government of Cape Verde and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, and is based on the Sustainable Development Goals.
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