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The meeting welcomed only 216,716 tourists in 2020, or 59,4% less compared to 2019, according to Reunion Island Tourism. A flashback of three decades ! After a satisfactory start to the year and progress in January and February, outdoor tourist numbers fell to zero during confinement, to resume only....

The Grand Port Maritime de la Réunion achieved a turnover of 49 million euros in 2020, impacted by the health crisis in the same proportions as traffic, which fell by 4%. During the supervisory board meeting on March 11, the multi-annual investment programming for 2021-2023 has been revised to take into account...

Metiss submarine cable (Meltingpot Indianoceanic Submarine System) entered service on March 5. A length of 3,200 kilometers, He connects Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar (Fort-Dauphin) in the South African coasts, In terms of Durban. Created in July 2016 for the specific needs of this new cable, le consortium METISS regroupe six opérateurs de la zone...

The Réunion Region officially took possession of the 5,400 meter viaduct linking Saint-Denis to Grande-Chaloupe on March 30. Even if the conciliation procedures are far from being completed between the project owner and the group of companies led by Vinci, which requires several hundred euros to add to the initial envelope (716 million euros), une étape symbolique est...

The Corsair company will open its Lyon-Marseille-Réunion line on June 21, twice a week on Mondays and Wednesdays from mainland France. These flights departing from the province will be scheduled at times that facilitate connections, at Roland-Garros airport, for passengers to and from Mayotte. They will be operated by Airbus A330-900neo, whose....

Air Austral announced at the end of March the scheduling of a series of one-off direct flights between Mayotte and Marseille for the entire school holiday period of July-August 2021. Two rotations will be operated each week between June 17 and September 12, Thursday and Sunday, with a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner. In the Dzaoudzi-Marseille direction, the flights will....

Le Syndicat mixte de Pierrefonds et la Région Réunion ont signé le 6 mars une convention-cadre portant sur un ambitieux programme d'investissements : 83 million euros in six years to get the southern airport off the ground again, at a standstill since the start of the health crisis. The most important envelope (41,5 millions) will be devoted to extending the track by 300 meters..

Reunionese companies in the commercial sector have created an added value of 7,5 billion euros in 2018, for a turnover of 26 billion, according to the latest figures from INSEE. Over a year, this overall added value has increased slightly, of 74 million euros (1%). It only increased for half of the already existing companies and fell by....

Over the period 2016-2018, women gave birth on average 1,89 enfant, according to the latest INSEE national study on fertility. This overall fertility indicator, overall decline, is however higher in Overseas, Martinique excepted (1,83 children per woman). It reaches 1,99 in Guadeloupe, 2,38 in Reunion, 3,77 in Guyana and 4,92...

CBO Territoria achieved a turnover of 103 last year,6 million euros, down 6,4% compared to the previous year. “A high level of turnover which demonstrates our resilience”, commented its CEO Eric Wuillai. La Mare society was impacted by confinement from March to May 2020, which led to....