tourism-ministers

"We have a lot of projects that we want youth to be involved in. We need to instil the passion, so that they can see this sector as another career path"

"For many years Butterworth was one of the dirtiest towns in the country. The Department of Environmental Affairs through Environmental Protection and Infrastructure Programme have turned that situation around by declaring the War on Waste by implementing [these] projects"

"These projects will generate approximately 2 536 work opportunities and 5 500 full-time equivalent opportunities, over two years. The beneficiaries of this programme will help in achieving the Government’s objective of responsible coastal management by contributing to the development and maintenance of coastal infrastructure along the coast. They will also assist municipalities in obtaining and maintaining blue flag status for their beaches, regular coastal clean-ups, as well as the removal of invasive alien vegetation"

"Funding of waste services is one of the areas that we need to put more energy in along with a need to maximize on efficient budgeting and utilisation of available resources sparingly. It is often a cry of local government that there are no funds to carry out waste delivery functions, often referred to as ‘unfunded mandates’. We are working closely with National Treasury to ensure that funds for waste management are allocated and that they are sufficient, however; local government has to put systems in place for efficient budgeting and be able to achieve more with less"

"There are many alien plants and they are categorised according to its use. We have introduced biological control that can provide complete control of the problem, it reduces the need for using a chemical substance"

"The country is water scarce and in provinces such as Northern Cape, this is an issue of life and death. These plants are available everywhere in the world not only in South Africa"

"Our commitment to bring investment tourism means promoting a sustainable practices at every level and we must ensure that the beauty we showcase today remains for future generations to enjoy,”"

"The preaching, according to tourism, is the true essence of creating sustainable tourism in Nigeria."

"The future of Nigeria tourism is rich and together we will unlock its full potential,"

"Achieving the vision of the green tourism requires a collaboration among local, state, Federal, international community, private sector investment and development partners."

"It is imperative for us to come together to pull our resources, share knowledge and innovate for a sustainable future."

"Education has been a neglected child globally; it has been seen as a national problem and has not really attracted much attention. Outside of the education bubble, I do not think that people are really aware of the true scale of the problem."

"Pouring more money in a broken system does only fund more inefficiencies, because often, we don’t think and act in results and learning outcomes are results."

"Leadership is about the decisions you make and the conversations you have. It is also about the time you give."

"At the end, if you think about Africa and the Middle East, there is a huge lack of leadership. It has to be integrated with ethics. Maybe the human side of leadership is the most important piece."

"Around 330 million children are in school, but not learning. There are bodies in classrooms, but not educated minds."

"We need more financial resources directed at education because we have more children, and also because 21st-century skills are more complex than anything that has been taught before. On the other side, the way that we are currently spending money as a society on education is not bringing the results we want to achieve."

"Institutions…could support the development of the whole ecosystem through knowledge building or creating a taskforce with other fiduciary investors and the ecosystem of dedicated impact bond managers. They have big capacities to bring systematic change, in advocacy and conversation with governments"

"We have publications, and we need to use case studies of where we are winning, to speak out in international Climate Change gatherings to tell these stories."

"With changes to the Russian financial situation, the value of their currency has significantly dropped. Therefore, it will be very expensive for a person who wishes to travel to Maldives."

"Seychelles remains open to visitors (despite COVID-19 pandemic). We welcome everybody. We have absolutely no intention to change that."

"It was revealed that senior Australian commandos had new soldiers openly massacre innocent people in Afghanistan in order to get them used to killing. We strongly condemn this,"

"Azerbaijan and Turkey are the two countries which have the same fate, same future and same values,"

"We stand behind the resolutions of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly on Palestine"

"AYUSH can definitely help as ayurveda has special medicinal syrups in this regard. Already 5,000-6,000 people have received the medicine at Rajasthan. The National Institute of Ayurveda at Rajasthan has already sent batches of that medicine to different states and we have also requested them to send the same to other states."

"Some ayurveda practitioners have told me that doctors prescribing allopathy medicines often advise patients not to opt for ayurveda. Such doctors are anti-nationals."

"Pub culture does not suit our country and hence we should try to control it. We should not sell our tourism on pub culture."