Ivory Coast Aims to Make Tourism the Third Pillar of Its Economy
Photo Credit: A beach-front hotel in Ivory Coast. Flickr / Hussein Abdallah
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Ivory Coast — which saw its tourism industry wiped out in 2011 — is hoping to raise $1 billion to grow the sector and create much-needed jobs.
Ivory Coast raised 5.8 billion euros ($6.4 billion) for its tourism sector during a roundtable in Germany on Friday, the second such bid in about a month to attract foreign hotels and tour operators to the West African country.
The gover
