This training session was officially launched on Wednesday by the Nigerien National Agency for the organization of the African Union Summit, in the presence of the Nigerien Minister of Tourism and Crafts, Mohamed Boto, the Minister-Counsellor and Director General of the AU Agency, Mohamed Saïdil Moctar, the Moroccan Ambassador to Niamey, Allal El Achab and the vice-president of the National Association of Tourism and Tourism Professionals. the hotel industry, Siddo Oumarou.
Scheduled to last around ten days, this session, delivered by six Moroccan experts, aims to train 120 tourism and hospitality professionals, including 90 hotel managers and 30 hotel managers all from the Niamey Urban Community in order to improve the quality of their services, during the AU Summit, we learned on Thursday from an official Nigerien source.
At the end of this training, officials from the Nigerien Ministry of Tourism and Crafts will also be better equipped to classify Niamey hotels and restaurants.
During this ceremony, the Nigerien Minister of Tourism and Crafts recalled the various agreements linking the government of his country to the Kingdom of Morocco since independence until now in the field of tourism.
In this sense, he cited in particular the cooperation agreement in tourism, signed in December 2017 in Rabat, under which Morocco was committed to providing Niger with its expertise in order to improve the services and services of hotels and restaurants in Niamey during the Summit of the Pan-African Organization.
Mohamed Boto took this opportunity to express his government’s thanks to the Moroccan authorities and the experts responsible for providing this training for having agreed to bring their expertise to Niger in the preparation of this important continental meeting.
For his part, the Moroccan ambassador welcomed the excellent cooperation between Rabat and Niamey, assuring the Nigerien authorities of the full availability of Royuame to help Niger in the preparation of this major event.
Some 5,000 guests, including around fifty African heads of state and government, are expected in Niamey during the AU Summit, while the bed capacity is only 3,000 and most hotel establishments do not meet standards, according to the same source.
Note that this training comes after that of protocol agents, organized by the AU Niger 2019 Agency. At the end of last August, some 350 Nigerien protocol agents underwent training by their fellow citizens previously educated in Morocco with a view to properly providing protocol services, as part of the preparations for the AU Summit.
source: lematin.ma
