Photo: Constance Lemuria Photo: Frégate Island Where you will leave the crowds, but not the facilities and amenities behind. It’s hard to find a more ideal venue than Seychelles for holding a conference, company incentive trip or doing as several of the world’s leading companies are doing…providing the ultimate morale-boosting break for your staff that will be talked about for a long time to come.

Powder soft beaches, waving palms, clear azure water and nearly twelve hours of tropical sun every day - it’s difficult to imagine a place so very far from the madding crowd that still enjoys wide international access, excellent transportation and communication facilities and a modern infrastructure – everything, in fact, to ensure that your particular combination of business and pleasure meets your expectations.

Seychelles welcomes business, group and conference trips and more and more hotels and exclusive island hideaways cater specifically for high-end incentive travel arrangements with a range of dedicated amenities and professional staff on hand to handle the details and ensure that your conference or incentive trip is a memorable one indeed.

Business Seychelles is located outside the cyclone belt, in a time zone whose working hours overlap with those of major financial centres. Its excellent sea and air connections with Europe, USA, Asia and Africa and an efficient telecommunications system combine with other advantages such as the extensive facilities available at its harbour, Port Victoria, and a well-developed infrastructure with attractive investment incentives, to offer the ideal business environment to investors. Ideally located between Asia and Europe and enjoying a stable political environment and with welcoming policies towards local and foreign investment, Seychelles offers a blend of factors highly conducive to business.

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