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Patrick Lebreton also confirmed what was announced last year : Reunion Island tourism and the Réunion Tourism Federation supported by the departmental council, will merge next year. The future Reunion Tourism Committee will deal with both local and foreign tourism and will be responsible for both promotion and structuring..

The Reunion company has changed hands. October 18, ten days after accepting the resignation of Joseph Bréma, the supervisory board of Air Austral has appointed Hugues Marchessaux as chairman of the management board. Graduate of Essec, aged 57, he held management positions at Corsair, Air France, Bolloré Transports and Logistics, of director and....

Patrick Lebreton, vice-president of the Region,responsable des affaires économiques et président d'Île de La Réunion tourisme a présenté le 10 octobre la feuille de route de la collectivité en matière touristique jusqu’en 2028, end of current term. The priority strategic objective is to increase the revenue generated by tourism activity, rather than aiming to increase attendance flows..

According to the Regional Tourism Observatory, Reunion Island welcomed 264,246 foreign tourists in the first half of 2024, in very slight progress (+0,2%) compared to 2023, record year. Tourism revenues are almost identical to those of last year. (221 million euros). The Union of Trades in the Hotel Industry estimates that attendance....

The Region contests the State's plan to sell the land occupied by the Lux hotel to the Mauritian group IBL, in La Saline les Bains. In a motion voted on September 6, she considers that this sale of the public maritime domain constitutes an “act of extreme seriousness”, for the reasons that it leads to transfer to interests outside our island...

French Tech La Réunion continues its support program for Reunion start-ups with two highlights : a presence at the Conference of Industrial Start-ups in Dijon in September and at the Overseas French Tech Days in Nouméa in October. 2024 was an intense year for French Tech La Réunion, marked by the participation of several start-ups in VivaTech and a trip....

Cyclea, the company in charge of waste treatment in the West, launched an awareness campaign against animal wandering at the end of August, problem she faces daily. It also manages the Cambaie intercommunal pound., et ses agents ont aussi pour mission de ramasser les cadavres d'animaux sur la chaussée et de capturer les animaux considérés...

A new page in the history of the Reunion Export Club opened on September 19, at the end of the annual general meeting which saw the election as president of Kelly Giroud-Animène succeeding Laurent Lemaitre. This native of the Port, aged 45, worked for twenty years within a group of sports store brands, where she....

Pascal Langeron, Deputy General Manager of Albioma and Director for the Indian Ocean, asserted his retirement rights after a long career within the energy group. Geoffroy Mercier, who directed Runéo (Véolia) for ten years, succeeded him at the beginning of September. He takes up his position at the head of a company which has completed the conversion of its two....

The Réunion Region signed on September 18 in Kélonia (Saint-Leu), the “blue economy” sector contract, in the presence of stakeholders from the maritime sector. This contract sets medium-term objectives for this sector whose development potential is considered significant.. With an average growth of 4,5% per year between 2012 and 2018, employment generated by....