CHARTER FOR SUSTAINABLE TOURISM 1. Tourism development should be based on criteria of sustainability, which means that it should be ecologically bearable in the long term, economically viable and ethically and socially equitable for local communities. Sustainable development is a guided process that considers a global management of resources […]

Madagascar is an exceptional territory in several respects. Its potential for tourism development faces a double paradox that drives our interest in analyzing the geopolitics of tourism on the Big Island. On the one hand, the country has an exceptionally rich biodiversity in a context of great human poverty and degradation […]

The Vezo (Vézos in French), sometimes called the “sea nomads”, form a people of Madagascar who once occupied the entire west coast of the big island and lived mainly from fishing. The Vezo are one of the last nomadic ethnic groups in the country. Fishermen, they leave far from their village. During this […]

Madagascar is at the crossroads of different cultures, the island is the scene of traditional ceremonies such as exhumation. They are practiced every year from July to September. This period coincides with the cold season of the Highlands, the temperature oscillates between 0 and 20 degrees and this is one of the reasons […]

It's still dark, I get up among my family in this morning freshness of June. In this season, in the highlands, the temperature is around zero. I pick up my blanket which also serves as my “lamba*” for the day. I'm cold but I have to get up, rekindle the fire […]

In my various trips to the remote corners of the island, I had the immense pleasure of meeting women, wives, mothers, farmers, craftswomen, seamstresses… wonderful. Actresses lurking deep in their homes, behind their veil of discretion and resignation, their silence and their thousand daily chores which seem to them obvious to their share of obligations, […]

For the continuity of one of our social projects, we are looking for partners who could help us develop an isolated village that we sponsor in the Pangalanes. The village currently has 203 households. It is currently the "pilot village" among 7 surrounding villages. Several achievements have already been made: construction of a school […]

It has been almost 10 years since we made our contribution and started our project to support Education and Community Development, Awareness on the Preservation of the Environment, as a private player in Tourism. Several actions have already been undertaken and carried out (reforestation, training, participation in workshops, child sponsorship, construction, granting of supplies, […]

From November 6, 2021, the borders of Madagascar will be partially reopened to flights from Europe to Antananarivo via Air Madagascar and Air France. Charter flights from Milan/Rome to Nosy Be are also authorized. Regional lines between Madagascar and the neighboring islands of the Indian Ocean – Maurice (via Air Mauritius) […]

The path to the reopening of tourism is taking shape better and better for Madagascar. After almost two years of shutdown and a timid attempt to partially open up the north, we are finally seeing a semblance of opening. The entire tourism value chain on the island is working hard to be able to welcome tourists to […]

Since March 2020, the borders of Madagascar have been closed to tourism, which is almost a year and a half of closure due to the covid-19 pandemic. If the figures linked to this contagion have always been quite low, compared to other countries in the same zone, the government has always brandished the threat of new […]