Seychelles reworks a 50-year plan for its international airport; private sector could contribute

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 CAPA reported how island and island groups around the world were at risk of a greater impact from it, along with their airports and the tourist visits they usually handle.

As it happens, the Seychelles, in the Indian Ocean and regarded as an upmarket vacation destination, haven't fared too badly, and tourist numbers are rising again rapidly.

Now the government has dug up a 2009 master plan which had not been implemented, to give it a shake-up appropriate to the changed circumstances of the past two years.

A new international terminal building is the cornerstone of the development, and for the first time the private sector could play a part in financing it.