Côte d’Ivoire / AFCON 2023: Deployment of a digital tourist information system
On Monday 23 October, the Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Siandou Fofana, launched a digital tourist information system (DTIS) as part of the 34th African Cup of Nations (AFCON 2023).
The role of this tool is to help boost the visibility, performance and development of the accommodation and catering offer, to monitor the tourism and leisure sector, and to provide up-to-date data, market trends and accurate information and statistics on the sector.
The platform will also enable the Ministry to better design more effective policies and initiatives.
«At a time when our country is preparing to host the greatest African Cup of Nations ever, the AFCON of hospitality, but also the AFCON of innovation, this tool will prove to be particularly strategic», said Siandou Fofana.
This tool will be used to plan and adjust the capacity of the tourism and leisure offer throughout the country.
Launched in November 2022 with the main aim of making the tourism and leisure potential of the country’s 13 tourist regions visible on a digital platform, the project to set up a Digital Tourism Information System saw the completion of its first deployment phase in September 2023.
To date, 22,641 establishments have been surveyed, geolocated and registered, including 19,201 tourism establishments and 3,440 leisure establishments.
The Minister was delighted with these figures, which are the result of preliminary fieldwork carried out over recent months, stressing that this second phase will enable the data to be corrected, made more reliable and completed.
According to the Minister, an information and training tour will be launched next week in the tourist regions to bring all players in the sector up to the same level of information before December.
Neil Camara
