Congrsatulations Sheikh. Sounds like a very good organization that is out to encourage excellence in the industry, and foster the spirit of entrepreneurship. As a fellow entrepreneur, my hat's off to you guys. Keep up the good work. Jabou Joh In a message dated 1/11/01 4:10:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << The Association of Small Scale Enterprises in Tourism will be holding its first sustainable tourism award scheme at the Bakadaji Hotel on Saturday 13th January 2001 at 8.30 pm. The award ceremony was supposed to be held on 25th November,2000 but was postponed due to the ramadan. The awards will recognize excellence in sustainable tourism development in a number of areas including Economic Impact award, Local suppliers award, Socio-Cultural awareness award, Authentic cultural award , Environment Conservation award, Eco-tourism enterprise award, Tourism Training award, Customer service award, Eco-tourism employee award, Best new initiative award, Individual enterprise award ,and Tourist guide award. These 12 categories for award aims to recognize employees as well as entrepreneurs for their contribution towards sustainable development. Sustainable tourism applies to an approach to tourism that takes account of environmental and social considerations including wider economic impact on local community, an area which ASSET is keen to bring to wider public attention. Looking forward to seeing you there. Chi Jamma, Sheikh Tejan Nyang. Secretary General. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html You may also send subscription requests to [log in to unmask] if you have problems accessing the web interface and remember to write your full name and e-mail address. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------