mardi 19 août 2014

Tourism in Algeria, between reality and Slogan

Land of history and culture in Algeria, is the rich tourism potential of adventure and discovery country. Rich also its very young population, the country became one of all evil and all the crises? So why do we get drunk very often slogans "tourist Algeria", "Quality Tourism" "Or Sahara tourist future"? But what is that Algeria who insists on getting stuck in these false promises?
A diagnosis of such a paradoxical situation arises:

Compared with other neighboring countries (Tunisia and Morocco in particular), Algeria has a much higher potential for tourism.

It owns 30% of Roman remains, one hundred spas, nonexistent in Tunisia yet rich spa treatments ... natural reserves of a potential of about 40% over those neighbors and of course a Sahara whose Tassili and Hoggar Ajjer recognized as the most important museums in the world to open. So many sites otherwise be classified as heritage and others, of course, classified by UNESCO worth inestimables.Des Oasis true Eden Gardens, followed by a loop of the valley Ksours, argument undeniable has a tourism development. Despite its immense natural advantages, the fact remains that the Algerian tourism is hit frequent attacks boycott and mediocrity by these very leaders who lack the knowledge to make clear, as the officials who run the record of domestic tourism are heavy and incompetent.

Everything you want to hear after that recess is that you do not tell us that the crises through national tourism come exclusively from social disasters. For outside disturbances and tensions subject to the vagaries of different educational and political programs, the vast majority of Algerians are productive and have a pronounced love for good taste and quality services. To realize this, he has even there the number of tourists visiting Algerians millions in neighboring countries.

Note that Algeria has the fifth of the land is arable and producing fruits and vegetables for a taste that only our omnipresent sun can develop despite a very poorly exploited hydrography, irrigation technique not always control. In this regard, Algeria, mainly the Sahara occupies the back of the pack shoreline to the north. In the desert the population is predominantly rural, more than half of the working population, yet does not manage to achieve food self-sufficiency.

China, with its billion and a half people cover their food needs since it made ​​its agricultural revolution.

So why is the government does not take this example and do not set themselves a priority tourism development and food self-sufficiency, because so far, most of the commitments of the State in this area simply unfulfilled promises.

Specifically, there has not been a policy of real and significant tourism. Algeria is considered the country specializing in annuities. Worse, it produces what it does not consume, that is to say, all tourism services and consumes what it does not produce (milk, frozen meat, sugar, and tea, unique beverage in the Saharan regions , imported conveyance etc. ...).

At the same time the prices of cash crops are constantly tariff stagnation due to the competition from the import consumption, and also the fact that prices are imposed by Western buyers (declining terms of exchange), Algerians stubbornly maintain this configuration annuity characteristic economy of the 18th century.

It's the 21st century, and it is high time for the good of the people, political leaders stop rhetoric and actually have it off. Oil is a perishable product in the short term (Up to another 20 years) and only a policy of tourism development and its derivatives (Agriculture, training, development of Fine Arts and luxury hotels) can replace a new sustainable economy able to absorb unemployment and bad life.

The crisis in Algeria in terms of tourism is not the result of fate, but a direct consequence of errors of some political ministers uninspired and priorities. Smain Mimoune is a striking example of those who preceded example. The only difference is that one is engaged in encouraging the mess and destroy the experienced quality human resource. (The case of the former DG Aurassi school, such as Hammam Righa are cases to remember) to make these changes are not expected to have the capability to accomplish its mission. The mission is already his but he can not use it.

There is a center for research and design an appropriate policy (Centre for the Study economic strategy). The center exists and has faculties of science to boost tourism and many other sectors out of ideas but even, admittedly, they are insufficient and also have few resources devoted to research and innovation or modernization. For example, the center recruits from concerned departments, staff it needs to develop what the staff did in those specific departments. This is the story of who hatched the egg ...

Let us, however, things wrong language. it could well be similar initiatives should be encouraged through this synergy of current actions. The national office to promote tourism does not have the human capacity to help the modernism of the image. Its staff is 99% obsolete. It will do without him and think differently to support small businesses through training to improve their skills for new creations in a holy and pleasing environment through the provision of modern tools tailored to maximize their chance of return in as a receiver for a national tourism but attractive tourism. Private schools can give a major training exist as to the ALC, MDI or VIP that officials can come to think concretely about.

At a time of political groups to deal with the pressures of globalization, it is urgent for the Algerian community around the world to adopt a common pragmatic policy to set quantitative targets but also qualitative, in order to encourage later destination Algeria. It is true that for the moment there is a real deficiency in tourism services and still no development tours or tourist stays and potentially exploitable correctly.

The hotel industry is still very poorly structured could still revolutionize the destination Algeria. Abandoned since 1990, the hotel raises the government's interest just to inject billions to raise standards ... (Not to European standards) but it does not manage to achieve his speech nor his statement his control.

To justify their inertia, officials of the Ministry of Tourism, do not hesitate to raise the issue of funding as the only handicap to achieving their major development projects of the Hotel portfolio. Investing in these projects, which are intended acquisition and opening of land and marketing of finished product by independent foreign firms could only bring light. For without this commercial tourist independence, attempts investment would be futile task. Forgetting that one of the factors preventing the Ministry of Tourism to compete or inhibit the creation of new service industries, is its huge appetite to interested firms. The high cost of foreign investment would be inconsistent against the bribe and compensation payrolls claimed by officials and the workers' union in the state tourism hotels and tourist centers to let go.

So the problem of tourism development in Algeria, is essentially solve the equation of hotel investments. Talking about tourism crisis or crisis accommodation in high-quality facilities in Algeria, despite all the advantages available to our country is a political aberration.

Source : http://goo.gl/veVDIX

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