About us

Welcome to tropicscope.com the Mauritian portal for leisure and tourism. Launched in February 2002, Tropicscope is a private initiative from EXPORTAL LTD, developers of specific web portals.

The concept of Tropicscope is to offer the possibility to service providers of the tourism & leisure industry to acquire the web presence they deserve. Tropicscope offers an equal but customisable webspace to all, allowing the smaller service providers to share a common platform with the leaders of the industry. By doing so, we offer to our visitors a wide and comprehensive database of services that are, of interest and of good standards.

Although those listed are of different standards, different price and quality levels, they have common denominators: they all have good track records in terms of service to the industry, respect of human rights and environment; they also all deserve to be listed as they deliver value for money.

Tropicscope has two main characteristics:
- Listings of hotels, villas & bungalows, B&B's, and other accommodations, restaurants, excursionists, places of interest, shops and car hires to be used as a guide for organising one's trip to Mauritius. Instead of offering just a list of addresses, which is not always helpful, we have designed standard pages containing particulars, pictures, and texts offering a detailed description of the places and services. We emphasize on the fact that the contents of these pages are supplied by the service providers´ themselves. However, we do make sure that their contents are true, valid, and up to date.

- A general information section, which can be of great help to all for practical information and especially to those preparing their next holiday trip. In addition, each region of Mauritius is described specifically; these pages contain our recommendations about places to see and things to do. Contrarily to the service providers′ pages, the contents of our country descriptions reflect our own views and opinions.

We have no financial interests in any of the parties listed onto Tropicscope and unlike most other Internet and paper guides on Mauritius, we do not automatically recommend the places who paid us for advertising.

Who are you dealing with?
When using a contact or request form from a Service Provider's mini website you are entering in direct contact with this service provider or with the a third party or agent appointed by this service provider for the handling of clients requests and correspondance.

We hope that Tropicscope will help you in discovering the true Mauritius and in the organisation of your trip. Its content is getting more comprehensive each month and we are endeavouring in improving our information and service. In case you have any suggestions, appraisals or complaints about anything related to your trip, the country and this web portal, do not hesitate to write to us.

Yours Sincerely,