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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>The Mauritian tourist board has reported a rise in multi-generation trips after the pandemic, with extended families booking beach holidays. As well as Mauritius\u2019s popularity as a wedding and honeymoon destination, multi-generation family trips have made a strong contribution to the country\u2019s tourism recovery, said Arvind Bundhun, director of tourism for the Mauritius Tourism promotion Authority.<\/p>\n

Family groups are keen to take part in activities where they can learn, said Bundhun. \u201cThe learning aspect is very important. There are nice stories of conservation and the educational aspect where kids can learn about marine life and how it\u2019s being protected,\u201d he told Travel Weekly at WTM.<\/p>\n

Activities such as cooking lessons are also popular with families. Before the pandemic, Mauritius attracted 140,000 tourists per year from the UK, said Bundhun, while this year there were 96,163 from January to September 2022 \u2013 with a spike after the country scrapped Covid-19 testing requirements on 1 July.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mauritius. The Mauritian tourist board has reported a rise in multi-generation trips after the pandemic, with extended families booking beach holidays. As well as Mauritius\u2019s popularity as a wedding and honeymoon destination, multi-generation family trips have made a strong contribution to the country\u2019s tourism recovery, said Arvind Bundhun, director of tourism for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":22314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,245,255,241],"class_list":["post-22315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mauritius","tag-mauritian","tag-mauritius"],"yoast_head":"\nMauritius reports rise in multi-generation trips - Mauritius<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Mauritian tourist board has reported a rise in multi-generation trips after the pandemic, with extended families boo ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mauritius reports rise in multi-generation trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Mauritian tourist board has reported a rise in multi-generation trips after the pandemic, with extended families boo ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Mauritius\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T10:49:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-11T11:46:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_2-636e35f666f88.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"448\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"252\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mauritius reports rise in multi-generation trips\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-11T10:49:15+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-11T11:46:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\"},\"wordCount\":170,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/sites\/61\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_2-636e35f666f88.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Mauritius\",\"Mauritian\",\"Mauritius\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mauritius\/all-news\/mauritius-reports-rise-in-multi-generation-trips\",\"name\":\"Mauritius reports rise in multi-generation trips - 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