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Gambia signs multi-million World Bank grant to revive tourism

Friday, July 8, 2022

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Gambia, a western African nation and the World Bank signed a $68 million grant to revive the ocean-facing West African country’s tourism sector, representatives of both parties announced at a ceremony. Gambia has unique tourist attraction. This affordable African destination is just a 6 hours flight from any European countries; this region promotes rural, sustainable and sea-side resort tourism.

This multi-million grant is meant to support the diversification and climate resilience of tourism in Gambia, a country of around 2.1 million inhabitants surrounded by Senegal.

The sector, like industries across Africa, has been hard-hit by the pandemic and economic fallouts of the war in Ukraine, World Bank managing director of operations Axel Van Trotsenburg said at the signing ceremony in Gambia’s capital Banjul.

The grant is meant to promote sustainable tourism, develop different holiday experiences and help protect Gambia’s Atlantic coastline from the impacts of climate change.

The pandemic caused Gambia’s economic growth to contract by 0.2% in 2020, according to the World Bank. The economy has since started to recover, reaching 5.6% growth in 2021, largely driven by the return of beach resort-goers and remittances. The tourism accounts for roughly 20% of Gambia’s gross domestic product and is the largest foreign exchange earner, according to the government.

In few years, Gambia can get lots of resorts, airbnbs, luxury hotels for upscale tourists also.

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