Affordable Seychelles

Affordable Seychelles is one of the latest campaign launched by the Seychelles Marketing Board (STB) It is well known amongst travellers that visiting the Seychelles islands can be an expensive affair; before we do anything, we need to define expensive and affordability because both are directly related to money paid for a service.

Being expensive is when you pay for something and you do not get the matching services. On the other hand affordability is receiving in abundance compared to the fees paid.

Let us put these in context. It is not important if you are paying 1000$ a night in a five star hotel or 50$ a night in a guest house, the terms expensive or affordable becomes irrelevant because these terms are purely based on what services and the quantity of it that you receive based on perception and your initial expectation.

The matter is then left to choices and these choices matching the expectations. Expectation, somehow are always higher that any amount of money paid because it is human nature to expect more, especially if it is being paid for. So when does it become affordable?