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. Seychelles has become a successful international financial services centre with the setting up of the Seychelles International Business Authority (SIBA) in 1995. SIBA’s main responsibility is to promote Seychelles as an offshore centre and covers the licensing and regulation of the primary offshore business activities in Seychelles and the International (Free) Trade Zone. The Seychelles Investment Board was set up in July 2004 as the one stop shop for domestic and foreign investors. The Board has a young professional team of 19 staff dedicated to promoting investment opportunities in Seychelles and furthermore facilitate the processes of establishing a business in Seychelles from scoping to implementation stages. Main Objectives of the Board • To formulate investment promotion policies, plans and marketing strategies and undertake promotional activities to attract foreign and local investments • To advise the government on strategies for investment policies, national investment marketing and investment after care, economic and industrial planning and country image-building • To stimulate the development, expansion and growth of the economy by promoting Seychelles as an international investment, business and service centre • To promote and facilitate the development of investment and business activities Photo: Gerard Larose, Routes Africa Conference, Kempinski Conference, Africa Routes Larose, Gerard Photo: Photo: Gerard Larose, Routes Africa Conference, Kempinski Conference, Africa Routes Larose, Gerard Photo: Photo: Gerard Larose, Routes Africa Conference, Kempinski Photo: Michel Toule, CAF Conference, Constance Ephelia Resort .