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Article: Shopping made in heaven: Mauritius, the dynamic Indian Ocean island state, is not one to sit on its laurels. It is about to add to its economic lustre by turning itself into a shopping paradise for the whole world. Tom Nevin reports.(MAURITIUS)
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- African Business
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- June 1, 2005
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Deciding it has had enough of the capricious and jittery world sugar market, the idyllic Indian Ocean island of Mauritius is to massively build on its reputation as a favourite global playground by adding another magical ingredient. It plans on becoming the world's first duty-free island, transforming the sunny, carefree archipelago into a tourist "shopping paradise".
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Already a holiday magnet for African and hordes of visitors from Europe and Southeast Asia, Mauritius now intends becoming a prime shopping destination for high-end luxury items, or at least well-made alternatives.
Unabashedly, the objective is to seduce a bigger ...