The World Cup and a drop in the value of Russia’s currency are negatively affecting the number of tourist arrival in Seychelles, a tourism official says, though Germany, France and Italy are sending more visitors to the island nation this year than in 2017.
The 115-island archipelago in the western Indian Ocean has seen only a two percent increase in figures in the first half of the year, which the chief executive of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB), Sherin Francis, said is slightly below the STB’s predictions.
The Russian market has seen a drop of 18 percent for the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year. Francis said that the FIFA World Cup and the value of the ruble — Russia’s currency — “are not favourable for prompt recovery of this market.”
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Source: Seychelles News Agency
