Mr. C.Major Bah,
You article on Tourism is great, it is a masterpiece.I salute you.
 I enjoyed it and I have a contribution to make in days to come.
.
Why tourism has cause a total slup in The national economy ?
Why Yankuba Touray announced that a bumper season was sure ?
Why we do not have a performing arts centre to market the cultural shows?
Why there are no souveriners and machandise?

I believe in Cultural tourism more than amusment tourism.
The programme of amusement tourism is the cause of all the bad effects
and slup in tourism.
We have horrible tourist now in the Gambia. For 300 dollars you can go
the Gambia from Holland.
You get lifted from Amsterdam and dropped in The Gambia paid for by the
social service. Poor and rude tourists.
You don't need to advertise to get this bunch. They are disrespectful
and unethetical. Basd manners !
The dutch government is looking for places for old people and poor
tourists and the Gambia is a target.
I love your article I will surley come back to you. I have prepaid a
document on the future of Tourism
called Cultural Tourism for Economic Developement. I will forward this
tyo the list for a breakdown.

Very much Respect
Oko Drammeh

Cherno Marjo Bah wrote:

> The Gambian economy continues to suffer for the low tourists turnover.
>
> The Gambian economy remains vulnerable to international war on
> terrorism and
> the turmoil in the Middle East. These global events are deteriorating an
> already unsettle tourism and energy sectors of the economy. As the
> tourist
> season ended in May 04, the benchmark of tourist arriving Gambia had
> subsided more than 50 percent less from the high it touched on May 03.
> This
> is serious and therefore we cannot relax. People might not believe it but
> The Gambian economy is exquisitely sensitive to the tourism contribution.
> Tourism in Gambia can caused a nationwide slump, it is capable of causing
> mass unemployment, double-digit inflation, extraordinary political
> turmoil
> and losses of economic welfare on a scale hitherto associated with
> draught.
>
> How reassuring is this?  If businesses in the tourism industry operates
> below minimum sustainable capacity than it would otherwise have been, and
> stays there a while, let say three (3) months or longer, prices in
> general
> will rise, output and incomes will be reduced, and unemployment will be
> raised. This vicious combination of higher inflation, depreciating
> Dalasis
> and lower growth stagflation, to recall the draught period of the 80s
> is the
> worst scenario the Gambian economic policy maker can contemplate.  The
> debate now is not about the outcomes of the tourism sector but
> dependability
> of the Gambian economy on tourism regarding the future. The balance the
> Gambians economy needs is to avoid the appearance of caving in to
> pressure
> from European suppliers for lower price tourisms (Mass market tourism) in
> one hand and deflecting measures aimed at economising on the tourism
> sector
> that would trim longer-term incomes.
>
> Three relating issues need to be addressed by Gambians and the tourism
> Authorities.
> Firstly, the surging demands on tourism related developments. Over the
> past
> decade much of the private investment has been directed to tourism
> infrastructural development, basically in the greater Banjul area.
> Lots of
> new hotels and private lounges are being seen along the tourism
> development
> areas. Tourist markets are now seen everywhere in the tourist areas.
> Demand
> for energy is high as tourism related developments are growing strong.
> While
> the supply to meet these demands is being held up by fear of
> international
> terrorist and higher oil price. Oil might be temporary, however, but
> the end
> to the war on international terrorism is still a distance long.
>
> Second, micro-tourism economy distribution is a bottleneck in the Gambia.
> After Brikama, fewer of the Gambian population harvest the benefits of
> tourism. Capacity building in LRD and Upper River Division is not
> prioritise
> when tourism is concern.
>
> The finally issue is the risk of future interruptions in supply. This is
> where the real danger resides. Tourists operators in the Gambia are
> predominantly European with massive bargain power and the majority of
> tourists arriving the Gambia are predominantly white, western and very
> few
> American. If these white western and the very few American say no to the
> Gambia as a tourist destiny because authorities disagreed with
> operators or
> international terrorism escalates. Perhaps it is unlikely that this will
> happen but a small risk of a very bad outcome is enough to justify a
> substantial damage in the Gambia economy.
>
> Why are Gambians in the Diaspora not targeted as potential tourists to
> the
> Gambia? We are talking about more than a million Gambians and their
> descendants. Today, The Gambian economy receives annually more than 40
> % of
> the disposable income of these Gambians abroad, an amount high if compare
> with what tourism brings into the economy. Moreover targeting Gambian
> abroad
> will have the effect to offset the low white western tourists turnover in
> the Gambia. Thus, reduces some of the negative consequences the tourists
> sectors is suffering from the dependency on western white tourists.
>
> Pa Che
>
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