Diary Henintsoa Andrianampoinia is an experienced eco-tourism and sustainable tourism consultant with a strong background in the travel industry, including 17 years as an English-speaking naturalist guide. He is the founding member of Madagascar’s English Guides Association (MEGA) and Managing Director of Awesome Madagascar Tours, specializing in eco-tourism, birdwatching, and cultural tours. A teacher of tour leading at INTH, he has led multiple initiatives to promote sustainable tourism, such as the “Day of Sustainable Tourism” event and the documentary "Unique Madagascar." He has also been a guest speaker on international platforms and contributed to tourism development through collaborations with major stakeholders and educational efforts.
Tourism: Madagascar in the top 10 favorite African destinations Since 2003, the Spanish consulting firm Bloom Consulting has published every two years, in partnership with The Economist, Forbes, The Guardian And CNN, her Country Brand Ranking for Trade and Tourism, which ranks the best tourist and commercial destinations in the world, out of a set…
The 15th edition of Connect will take place from November 20 to 26, 2023 in Antananarivo, the capital of the Red Island. Connect 23 will discover the spectacular island of Madagascar. © Diana Parkhouse/Unsplash Operation Connect is heading to Madagascar this year. The event created in 2009 by Jean-Michel Roger for travel agencies will set…
Since the 1980s, French people called vazahas by the Malagasy people have gone to the island of Nosy-Bé, located in the north of Madagascar, to have paid relationships with young girls, sometimes minors. Every evening a disastrous spectacle is repeated in the main street of Ambatoloaka. Old, pot-bellied white men return home accompanied by one…
Beyond its heavenly appearance, the legends that surround it make Sainte-Marie Island, off the coast of Madagascar, special. Starting with those of pirates. Hundreds of them stopped there between the 17th and 18th centuries. To the east, there is something new on the postcard of Madagascar. A very trendy “spot”, on the atlas of the…
“Big Island”, “World Island”: the immense Madagascar has disproportionate potential which goes well beyond the beaches and the lemurs… and its some 300,000 visitors in 2023. It is a destination of discovery, carved especially for hiking, where the human aspect takes on its full dimension. © Adobe Stock VFrom a cockpit, the passage into territorial…