Cameroon targets 2 million tourist arrivals in 2015

Described as mini Africa because we find all the specificities of the black continent on its territory, the Republic of Cameroon expects 2 million tourist arrivals in 2015, according to the Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang, who revealed this prospect during the recent inauguration of a new hotel in Yaounde.

Considered as a "tourist destination" (destination which hosts at least 500,000 tourists annually) by the World Tourism Organization in 2010, Cameroon, according to statistics from the Ministry of Tourism and Recreation, hosted at the end of November 2013 a total of 912,000 tourists, against 817,000 at the end of the year 2012.

This is equivalent to an increase of about 100,000 tourists a year, or 10% more, statistics that could have been much brighter had it not been because of the insecurity in the northern part of the country, which has the most beautiful sites in the country, because of repeated attacks by Islamist sect Boko Haram Nigeria.

To increase the share of tourism in the GDP of the country whose contribution is currently estimated at only 1%, the Cameroonian government has embarked on major projects, like the development of new tourist sites, especially in the region of the Far North.

It is the same for the construction of a huge tourist complex in the town of Yoyo in the Littoral Region.

This project of an estimated amount of 1,000 billion CFA francs will be run with the support of the British Ruwaad group, under Emirati law.