Africa-Press – Cape verde. The president of the Santo Antão Tourism Guides Association, Odair Gomes, warned today that tourists from Santo Antão are canceling reservations and trips to that island, due to the “exaggerated prices” charged by airlines .
Cited by Inforpress, Odair Gomes, assured that this issue of unaffordable prices for air tickets to Cape Verde, specifically in the case of São Vicente, which gives access to Santo Antão, is having a “negative impact” on tourism on this island and on the lives of its residents. own guides, many of whom “have been unemployed for months”.
Guides without tourists
“Many guides don’t work because there are no tourists,” he said.
This is also reacting to statements by the president of the Cape Verde Tourism Chamber, Jorge Spencer Lima, that the “exorbitant” prices of tickets are having “a negative effect on the demand for tourism in Cape Verde, as a tourist destination”.
“As if the problem of air and maritime transport in this country were not enough, now, to make matters worse, companies have invented to practice exaggerated prices”, condemned Odair.
This source argues that, “in the middle of the low season for tourism, the strategy should be a greater opening for competitiveness like other destinations”.
“Within the class of guides in Santo Antão, there are several complaints about the cancellation and postponement of trips by tourists and the justification is the price of the tickets, which also makes the tourist package more expensive”, he concluded.
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