The Gambian delegation led by the minister of Tourism and Tradition is at the moment in Lagos, Nigeria, attending the UNWTO International Convention on linking tourism, tradition, and artistic business pathway for restoration and inclusive growth.
The worldwide convention was organised below the aegis of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) and it kicked off on Monday, 14th, ending on Wednesday sixteenth November 2022.
Honourable Hamat N.Okay. Bah, who led the high-profile delegation to the convention, was accompanied by the director common of The Gambia Tourism Board (GTBoard), Aboubacarr Camara, Hassoum Ceesay of the Nationwide Centre for Arts and Tradition (NCAC), and two different senior officers of the GTBoard.
This extremely attended international convention gathered top-notch panelists and stakeholders to debate linkages and alternatives between cultural tourism and the inventive industries.
As a part of the primary day’s deliberations, the director common of the GTBoard, Aboubacarr Camara, took his flip and offered Vacation spot Gambia, The Smiling Coast of Africa to the admiration of all attendees.
The worldwide convention seeks to supply a novel networking alternative for business gamers, practitioners, authorities officers, and policymakers to debate up to date and future points, in addition to alternate concepts and data referring to tourism, tradition, and the inventive business; promote revolutionary insurance policies to harness the symbiotic potential of cultural tourism and the inventive industries; determine funding avenues and mobilisation of human and monetary sources to spice up restoration, amongst others.
Additionally chatting with the director common of the GTBoard, Aboubacarr Camara by way of phone, he stated “as a part of the New Tourism Coverage and Technique, Vacation spot Gambia is required to consolidate the positive factors already made within the Nigerian market as one of many key regional supply markets. Efforts are subsequently underway to undertake a serious and aggressive advertising marketing campaign in Nigeria to draw excessive spenders/elite teams.”