Six Ivorian tourism stakeholders received, on Thursday, October 8, 2026, in Abidjan, the awards reserved for the second and third places in three categories of the National Excellence Prize, following the review of 354 applications in the sector.<\/p>\n
In the category of best accommodation establishment, Seen RAN Hotel in Bouak\u00e9 took second place ahead of H\u00f4tel des Savanes in Assinie. The ceremony was held in Cocody Deux-Plateaux Les Vallons under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism and Leisure.<\/p>\n
Saveurs d\u2019Ivoire and Co, in Abidjan, ranked second among dining establishments, while Texas Grillz, also located in Abidjan, secured third place.<\/p>\n
For travel agencies and leisure establishments, Fama Bio of Maf\u00e9r\u00e9 finished second and Aliz\u00e9 Voyages of Abidjan third. These six awards complete a list of winners whose top prizes had been awarded to La Baie des Sir\u00e8nes of Grand-B\u00e9r\u00e9by, La Parenth\u00e8se of Abidjan, and the Haliart Leisure Park Group of Yamoussoukro.<\/p>\n
The ministry recorded 207 applications in accommodation, 76 in catering, and 71 in travel and leisure. Accommodation thus accounted for nearly six out of ten cases among the 354 applications recorded.<\/p>\n
The ceremony was presided over on behalf of Minister Siandou Fofana by his chief of staff, Daniel L\u00e9al Andi, in the presence of the permanent secretary of the National Excellence Award, Eug\u00e8ne Kra. The 2026 edition marked the thirteenth edition of this government distinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of Tourism awarded the second and third places in three categories of the National Excellence Prize, with winners in Bouak\u00e9, Assinie, Abidjan, and Maf\u00e9r\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":532591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"pays":[133],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","pays-ivory-coast"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532592,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532590\/revisions\/532592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532590"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532590"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}