Mauritius United Properties

Overview of 2011 Budgetary measures per sector

Transforming Mauritius as Duty Free shopping paradise

Government will pursue actively its efforts to make of Mauritius a duty-free island and a shopping paradise for tourists. In this regards,:

Government will prepare a Blueprint to provide a basis and an action plan to transform Mauritius into a Duty-Free shopping and leisure IslandThe BOI will promote the duty-free shopping as a new sector of the economy by encouraging flagship brand labels, regional/international distribution chains and speciality shops to set up businesses in Mauritius. Government will work with existing and forthcoming shopping centres so that they integrate the concept of duty-free shopping paradise in their design and marketing.Government will make use of expertise that can draw on international experience to make tourism shopping as another pillar of the economy

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