7 billion neighbors

The hotel, catering and business tourism professions in Africa

Audio 48:30

A Senegalese beach (illustration image).

RFI/Charlotte Idrac

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

1 min

Africa is the youngest continent in the world and training needs are high in many areas including the hotel industry.

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With 67 million visitors in 2019, it has become the second region in the world with the strongest growth in the sector, after Asia-Pacific (Jumia Travel report - September 2019). 

However, it is not a course that makes students dream.

But countries like Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Rwanda and Cameroon are betting on this sector and offering training courses.  

With the pandemic, the insecurity in certain countries, can the hotel industry hold its own and create jobs?

How to offer quality training in these trades? 

With :

Alexia Muteke-Ceppi

, Director in the Schools Abroad Consulting and Certification Division at

Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne

in Switzerland

Mossadeck Bally

, founder and CEO of the pan-African group

Azalaï hotels

Hermann Massa

, director of the

Hotel School of Grand Bassam

(Côte d'Ivoire) 

And at the end of the program

the chronicle of the psychologist Ibrahima Giroux, Parents, children, from here and elsewhere

: What can dads do to support the weaning of the baby 

To download here

A weekly meeting to help parents, Ibrahima Giroux is a psychologist, in Dakar, Senegal   

Musical programming:

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Souke Pou Siki

- Oyoki Onanayo & Stelair

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Rotten

– Popsnotthefather

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