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A successful working visit
16 décembre 2011 Temoignages.re
Alain St.Ange, CEO of the Seychelles Tourism Board, with the Board's Senior Marketing Executive, Sharen Venus-Tomking and Marketing Executive Juliette Albert formed part of the Minister's Delegation to the sister island of La Reunion. Addressing the Seychelles Evening at the Creolia Hotel in St. Denis, Minister Joel Morgan said that Seychelles and La Reunion were more than only neighbors. “Seychelles and La Reunion are linked by history with many Seychellois having (...)
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"New natural jewels on the World Heritage crown"
3 August 2010
Two other natural sites were extended upon IUCN's advice: Monte San Giorgio, from Switzerland to Italy, and Pirin National Park in Bulgaria. Reunion Island contains the most significant remaining natural habitats for the conservation of terrestrial biodiversity in the Mascarene Island Archipelago, including a range of rare forest type. Towering volcanoes, including steep rock walls and natural amphitheatres, as well as deep forested gorges and escarpments form dramatic scenery of (...)
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Paul Vergès, former president of Reunion Island Regional Council and the Maison des civilisations et de l’unité réunionnaise
29 March 2010
I wish to concentrate on one issue among all those of major importance and sketch the topics that would be debated. It seems to me that when we consider what concrete actions should be taken in the next twenty years, we must look at the changes which will affect our country, our population and the countries surrounding us. On that basis, it is all too clear that the problem we will have to confront will be population growth. It is so common nowadays to hear : “In 2025 the (...)
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Cultural prestige of France undermine by a politician ?
29 March 2010
“Sir, We have learned that the MCUR project is threatened to be cancelled by the newly elected president of Reunion Island Regional Council. We will be extremely surprised that the government of the French Republic would support such a decision. Cultural centers are, in our times, sites of debates, exchanges, mixing, multiculturalism and citizenship. We know the work of the scientific and cultural team of the MCUR led by Françoise Vergès, the quality of its work, its objectivity, its (...)
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Call for reviews
20 novembre 2009
Air Austral ordered two all-economy versions of the giant A380 passenger plane at the Dubai Air Show. Each plane will carry 840 passengers on flights from La Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean to Paris. Soon, Reunionneses will travel in the double-deck superjumbo. Less noise ? More comfortable seat ? Fill this form and share your experience. (Pictures from an A380 built for testing and demonstration purposes, Roland-Garros Airport, Reunion (...)
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Reunion Island made a sensation at Dubai Airshow
19 November 2009 Manuel MARCHAL
30% cheaper, it will be possible for Reunionnese through Reunionnese's work. Yesterday, these Réunionnese that have been the event of the Dubai International Exhibition. It is indeed a reunionnese company that is the first to announce an order for Airbus A380s this year, and it is a very special version that will be delivered. Indeed, the two aircrafts will be operated by a subsidiary of Air Austral; there will have only a single class. Thus, they will carry more than 800 passengers (...)
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Highlight in the Dubai Airshow 2009
17 November 2009
Air Austral, an airline based in Reunion Island, has ordered two A380 in a single-class configuration. Long-haul and low-cost, it will be possible with the aircraft ordered by Air Austral: two A380s in a single-class configuration. “The A380 will offer the best comfort of any aircraft in a high density configuration. With its spacious and extremely quiet cabins, we'll enter a new era in terms of economic air travel.” said Gérard Ethève, CEO of Air Austral. “Air (...)
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Long-haul and low-cost flights
16 November 2009
Air Austral, based in Reunion island, will become the first airline to fly planes carrying over 840 people after confirming an order for two Airbus A380 superjumbos later on Monday, industry sources said according to Reuters. The sources said a provisional order for two of the European planes worth some $650 million at list prices, placed in January, would was expected to be firmed up at the Dubai event. Airbus declined to comment. Air Austral is the first airline to order a single-class (...)
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Test of Airport compatibility
16 November 2009
Today, more than 90 airports around the world have already welcomed the A380. Throughout 2009 an increasing number of airports have handled scheduled A380 passenger services as the customer airline in-service fleet grows. Full airport compatibility has always been a key design driver for Airbus‘ all-new double-decker. Since the very beginning of the A3XX concept phase in 1996 the European aircraft manufacturer has established a continuous dialogue with regulators, airports, airlines, (...)
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And Reunion Island ?
7 October 2009
“Exercise Indian Ocean Wave 09” will provide an opportunity for Indian Ocean countries to test their operational lines of communications, review their tsunami warning and emergency response standard operating procedures, and promote emergency preparedness. [1] The exercise scenario will replicate the magnitude 9.2 earthquake that occurred off the northwest coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in 2004, generating a destructive tsunami affecting countries from Australia to South Africa. (...)
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Intangible cultural heritage of humanity
2 October 2009
The inclusion of maloya in the Representative List will have a symbolic effect and will provide greater visibility to already existing measures. It will encourage the authorities, associations, individuals and the cultural industry to develop sustainable activities. As has already been mentioned on several occasions, maloya is a constantly evolving and creative living practice. Its inclusion in the Representative List can only make its expansion more meaningful and enhance its legitimacy. (...)
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33 years after "Peuple de La Réunion - Peuple du Maloya"
2 October 2009
The revitalization of maloya over the past 30-odd years has ensured its current visibility within the island and internationally. Many people practise maloya and contribute to maintaining its stylistic diversity. The methods of production of traditional instruments have been passed on to younger generations, and pupils learn these methods in arts and culture classes in primary, lower and upper secondary schools. Maloya thus plays an important role in the fields of music and culture in (...)
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33 years after "Peuple de La Réunion - Peuple du Maloya"
2 October 2009
Maloya designates a type of music, a song, a dance specific to Reunion. Brought by slaves from East Africa and Madagascar, it became creolized on the sugar plantations during the period of “engagism”. Long linked to ceremonies of ancestor worship, and confined to the sphere of the plantations and the housing for farm labourers and sugar-factory workers, it has been gradually moving into the public domain since the 1970s. It was used to convey political demands during the (...)
Devant la revendication légitime des Réunionnais, Didier Robert dit : « je ne sais pas faire baisser les prix »
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