Djibouti: an ideal place and favourable circumstances for tourism

SITUATION

The big worldwide tourism flux (Western Europe, Arabic peninsula and extreme Orient) where a great number of tourists leave from, and the Indian Ocean islands where a great number of people go, make the republic of Djibouti the destination of the future.

Comparable with a Mediterranean country, the climate in Djibouti from October to April is very nice, whereas the average temperature during the hot season from May to September is around 35°C.

OPPORTUNITIES

With exceptional places and amazing depths of the sea combined with wonderful beaches, the republic of Djibouti has a substantial potential in the tourism sector. 

Djibouti has also a 370m coastal front, where you find exquisite islands and the Ras Siyan straits seen as one of the deep-sea diving wonders of the world. The country also generates Dantesque and unique landscapes in the world as well as some of the driest deserts in the world (grand Bara and petit Bara). However, the development of the sector has been curbed by many constraints linked to hotel facilities insufficiency and big tourism areas enclosure.

FUTURE PROSPECTS

A strategic plan of development aimed to make the tourism sector the priority of economic development, has been established by the government. The geographic position, which makes Djibouti a natural regional hub for tourism acts as foundation for this strategy which aimed to highlight its assets:  a natural and unique depths of the sea with an amazingly beautiful landscapes.

The actions of this plan concern the improvement of infrastructures, so as to create a real capacity of hostage that meets Djiboutian standing. Those actions are to be seen in a set of measures including two different constituents: the first one is, providing tourism professions training and consciousness raising, and the second one is, maritime environment protection.

The tourism potential of the country represents a substantial opportunity and its practically unexploited coastal lines emphasize the whole natural resources of the depths of the sea.

This potential could ensure the development of different quality subjects (ecotourism, deep-sea diving and cultural tourism etc…) that are lucrative and respectful of environment.