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SoS Nancy Njie tours hotels

Nancy Njie, the secretary of state for Tourism and Culture, recently led a delegation to various hotels in the greater Banjul area. The aim of the visit was to assess major construction and refurbishment taking place in tourism industry. According to a press release from The Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA), SoS Njie and delegation visited some major hotels and had discussions with hoteliers on issues pertaining to the state of prepardness for the year 2008/2009 tourist season. The tour of...

The Value of Tourism

The Gambia Tourism Authority (GTA) has just released the June 2008 tourist arrival figures. Altogether, 3,480 tourists visited The Gambia in June this year. Of the lot, the greatest number of arrivals came from Britain, 884. This is followed by Gambians, 817; Dutch, 449; Spaniards 358; Belgian 117; German 116; and Swedish, 108. These figures are quite impressive. They show that the tourism industry has the potential to attract even more holidaymakers to The Gambia. The more tourists who visit...

Spanish gays charged Appear in court today

The two Spaniards arrested last Friday at rendez -vous in manjaikunda and subsequently detained at kotu police Station on suspicion of homosexuality, have been charged with an attempt to commit “unnatural offence”. Pere Joan, 56, and Juan Monpserratrusau, 54, will appear in court today at the Bundung magistrates Court to answer to the charge levelled against them. ASP Sulayman Secka, the public relations officer of the Gambia Police Force, said the alleged offence was contrary to Section 124...

Profile of an industrious Gambian stakeholder in tourism

For a closer look at the Tourism Development Area, one would easily notice a transformation of infrastructural development such as additional hotels, bar and restaurants, traffic lights, good road network. Of course the security and the hospitality  of  Gambians which is second to none. The government has given a face lift to the Tourism Development Area and stakeholders in the industry have significantly contributed to making The Gambia a hospitable tourist destination that earned us the name...

Promoting Tourism

The tourist season is now here. Visitors are coming in large numbers to enjoy their hard earned  rest. History tells us that Gambian tourism started in 1964, when the late Bertil Harding brought the first chartered tourist flight to Bathurst, now Banjul. Then, there were only two hotels, the Atlantic Hotel and what barely looked like a hotel, Adonis. No tour operators, no trained local handlers, nothing, really to build on. Then years rolled on and the drop developed into a flow and now it is...

Gambian Tourism Delegation Back from Ghana

A high-powered delegation of tourism stakeholders accompanied by officials of the Gambia Tourism Authority, recently returned from an insightful visit to Ghana. The delegation included members of the Gambia Hotel Association (GHA), The Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism (ASSET), Tourism and Travel Association of the Gambia (TTAG), The Fashion Designers’ Association and Slok Air International. Prior to the visit, a Ghanaian delegation visited their Gambian counterparts in...

Red Dolphin Life Guard Association Saving Lives

Since its inception in April of 2006, the Red Dolphin Life Guard Association have been making giant strides in rescuing many lives in their areas of operation. Red Dolphin Life Guard Association has a membership of 20 volunteers and it operates on the beaches of Fajara, Senegambia, Sanyang, Palma Rima and Bijilo in the Tourism Development Area. The association is involved in sensitizing people on the dangers associated with the beach, preventing and resolving sea-related accidents, supervising...