Make discover Guiana

One of the Tourism Committee’s goals is to find local and external investors to foster qualitative and quantitative changes in the region’s tourism offering.

• French Guiana’s advantages
• Studies available for project sponsors and investors
• To assemble a grant request dossier
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French Guiana’s Advantages

Many Strong Points for French Guiana

A vast region (1/5th of France), a large portion of which has been preserved.

A French overseas département (DOM).
- security and safety (political and health)
- French is the official language
- the euro is the currency.

A European gateway in southern America, with the possibility of combined stays (Brazil and the Caribbean).

A wide range of different aid.

• State/regional planning agreement (Contrat de Plan Etat/Région) and DOCUP 2000-2006 (Objective 1) with
• Subsidies from the region, the French government, and Europe
• Direct aid from the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French national space agency, for tourism development
• Free-trade zones and various finance laws: Perben, Tax Optimization, Orientation for Overseas, and others

Certain tourism projects may receive subsidies of up to 75% of the investment.

Good air links.

• From Paris-Orly (Air France’s daily direct flight and Air Caraïbes via the Antilles)
• From the French Antilles (Air France and Air Caraïbes with at least one daily flight)
• From Brazil (Belem/Macapa/Fortaleza) with TAF, Air Caraïbes, and by road.

Significant population growth ensures an internal market for leisure activities that is going to increase naturally and rapidly.