Tourism translates into job creation. This means that all inclusive resort development is high on the agenda in many African countries.
Governments want to alleviate poverty and they know that in Africa, tourism is a great job creator – so the answer for the future seems to lie in all inclusive resort developments.
Dubai – the ultimate consumer resort development
Just look at Dubai, the ultimate consumer resort development. It rose out of the desert and within a few years has become one of the most sought after destinations.
Earlier this Month in Libya, Gaddafi’s son, Saif al Islam announced that a 2000 square mile area of land between Benghazi and Tobruk in the north has been allocated for a $3 billion “Green Mountain Sustainable Development Area”. – national park, eco-friendly hotels and even organic farms.
All inclusive resort packages for Kenya and Morocco
Kenya has worked hard in the past years to re-shape its tourism image. Eco-lodges are thriving and all 40 game parks and beach resorts along the coast are doing well. In fact, they are expecting one million visitors to fly in for the first time this year.
One wonders then why they are planning to build three massive resort-type cities like South Africa’s Sun City - one in Isiolo, a backwater town about 60 kms from Mt Kenya - near seven game parks; another in Mombassa and another one possibly in Malindi within the next 15 years. Do visitors really want an all inclusive resort package when they come on safari?
And Morocco, with vast stretches of undeveloped coastline present a prefect opportunity for the government to reach its target of 10 million holidaymakers by 2010. Enter Plan Azur – a blueprint for six coastal resorts announced by King Mohamed VI in Marrakesh in 2001 – five resorts on the Atlantic, one on the Mediterranean.
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