ECOWAS Private Sector Tourism Confederation
Tourism is a major focus of a country’s socio-economic development, in this sense ECOPSETC, intends to awaken the private sector, to a competition at a national and international level.
Meet the team members
About
ECOPSETC
The ECOWAS Private Sector Tourism Confederation, hereinafter referred to as ECOPSETC, is a lay organization that brings together the private tourism industry federations of the ECOWAS member states.
Establishment
ECOPSETC-ECOWAS was created in 2021
Chairman
Mamadou Racine Sy, from Senegal
ECOPSETC was created out of the need to create a single interlocutor for tourism communication with ECOWAS, its partners and its States. For this reason it has as its main objective, to be a unifying medium for the promotion of tourism development within the ECOWAS region.
ECOPSETC is aware that it is necessary to stimulate and accelerate the development of tourism and hospitality in our community and in that sense has as a goal
- Improve the quality of services and have a better visibility;
- Promote a harmonious development of the tourism and hotel industry;
- Promote cooperation between professionals from the private sector and the States;
The Chairman
The elected chairman of ECOPSETC-ECOWAS is Mamadou Racine Sy.
He is currently also:
- Mayor of Podor, Senegal
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bolloré Africa Logistics Group
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of King Fahd Palace
- Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Institution de prévoyance retraite du Sénégal (Ipres).
About
Strategic plan
Promote
Promotion of tourism within ECOWAS in collaboration with national ministries and structures responsible for tourism development
New Projects
Initiate tourism projects on a regional scale, involving all local tourism operators
Cooperation
Encourage and promote business cooperation relations between tourism stakeholders in the ECOWAS region
Links
Ensure the link between private tourism operators and public bodies for the development of the tourism industry in the ECOWAS region
Implementation
To be an organism for the implementation of tourism development policies and action plans in the ECOWAS region
Team
Meet the team
Nancy Peggy Quartey
Vice-president for Anglophone countries
Ghana
Adnan Yahya
Executive General Secretary
Guinea-Bissau
Jorge Daniel Spencer Lima
President of the Development and Partnership Committee
Cape Verde
Salif Leonce Diarra
President of the Tourism Promotion Commission
Burkina Faso
John Shollop
President of the Commission in charge of tourism investment
Sierra Leone
Francine Chantal Aissi Epse Houangni
President of the Commission in charge of Logistics and Infrastructures
Benin
Jorge Paulo Cabral
Vice-president for Lusophone countries
Guinea-Bissau
Moustapha Kane
Secretário Geral Executivo Adjunto
Senegal
EIh Ibrahima Kobele Keita
President of the Committee on Finance and Taxes
Guinea
Kebba Macoumba Njel
President of the commission in charge of vocational training
Gambia
Nkereuwem Onung
President of the Commission in charge of legal affairs and relations with institutions
Nigeria
Diby Cleophas Lolo
Côte d’Ivoire
Ramatou Amaro Diallo
General Treasurer
Niger
Fatimata Kouyate Cisse
President of the Communication and Marketing Committee
Mali
Karoube Komi Pabali
President of the Commission in charge of the Tourism Committee
Togo
May Bright Urey
President of the Commission in charge of Sub-regional Social Integration
Liberia