The first joint commission between the two countries ended in Yaounde at the weekend.
At the end of the first session of the joint commission between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the Republic of Cameroon on the tourism sector which held in Yaounde from July 17-20, 2013 , the two countries have signed an eight-point Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to improve their tourism sectors for the mutual benefits of their economies and populations.
According to the document, the parties agreed to organise bilateral workshops to showcase their tourism products and factors of tourism development in both countries, exchange experiences in the field of developing new tourism areas as well as explore mutual investment opportunities, exchange incentives and facilities offered to investors to develop tourism. They also agreed to encourage investors to invest in Cameroon’s tourism sector, for Egypt to organise training courses for tourism stakeholders in Cameroon in the training centres of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Egyptian Tourism Federation according to the needs of Cameroon and also for Egypt to provide its expertise to Cameroon on the planning and development of infrastructure for some tourism projects in Cameroon’s ten regions. Egypt is also to arrange for training courses for tourism security as well as host the next session of the commission on a date yet to be fixed.
The Secretary General in Cameroon’s Ministry of Tourism and Leisure, Angeline Florence Ngomo signed the document for her Cameroon while Mrs. Wessam Hamed, Secretary General in the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism signed for her country.
Prior to the working session, the Egyptian delegation was received in audience by the Minister of State, Minister of Tourism and Leisure, Bello Bouba Maigari, who pledged government’s determination to implement her own part of the deal for a mutually beneficial tourism development in Egypt and Cameroon. The delegation went on a tourism excursion to the Mefou national park on Saturday July 20 to round off what both parties described as a successful and fruitful Yaounde deliberation.
