Condor Colours Return to the Seychelles Islands
Some 224 visitors from Germany and its surroundings
disembarked in Seychelles as Condor airlines made a special return to paradise
Seychelles, on Saturday, November 14, 2020.
The airline operated a special charter in collaboration with
DER Touristik, a German tour operator, the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) and
Mason’s Travel in the aim to ignite the spark for Seychelles for visitors in
Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Working in partnership with the STB and Mason’s Travel, DER
Touristik- prominent European tour operators and a market leader for long haul
travel in Germany, Austria and Switzerland- gave the honour to Seychelles to be
the first destination for such a charter since March.
Ensuring the success of this venture, sixteen local
accommodation partners joined the project and created various attractive
packages, which included special honeymoon packages for newlyweds, a booming
market segment for the pristine paradise.
In line with the new travel prerequisites to enter
Seychelles, the various packages included a travel health insurance required
for entry with Covid-19 coverage and the super carefree package from DER
Touristik, which protects holidaymakers in the event of Covid-19 related
incident. Travellers were allowed to cancel their trip free of charge up to 14
days before departure.
The collaboration carries hope for the local tourism
industry, as the operated Condor charter was a fully booked one with passengers
excited to be away from the confined cities to experience the mystical beauty
of the islands until their return flight on November 21, 2020.
Speaking about the special flight to Seychelles, the STB
Chief Executive, Mrs Sherin Francis mentioned her satisfaction to see the
interest of the visitors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
“Our collaboration with Mason’s Travel, Condor, DER
Touristik is in anticipation of the resumption of the Condor flights at the end
of the year. We are glad to see that the interest of our visitors and partners
from the market is still present. Germany remains a very important market for
Seychelles and as such, is vital that we remain very close with our partners,”
said Mrs Francis.
On his part, Mr Christian Zerbian, STB representative on the
German market stated his satisfaction to see the response of the visitors from
that market to the offer.
“This is a definitely a very positive outcome of the efforts
invested these past few months. There is still a lot of potential for this
market to produce even more and we are striving to make the return on Condor on
the Seychelles route beneficial for the destination,” said the STB
Representative in Germany.
Safety has become pivotal to rebuilding confidence in the
travel industry, through this partnership between the destination, airline,
hotels and DMCs, traveller safety remains central throughout the entire travel
chain starting from departure extending throughout their stay.
Condor is expected to resume flights to
Seychelles on December 18, 2020, with a direct weekly flight from
Frankfurt.