Gambia: Tourism - Promising Winter Season, Says GHA Chairman
Alieu Secka, Chairman of the gambia hotels Association (GHA) has said that the beginning of the first quota of the winter season emerge a brilliant start, resulting in overbooking of some hotels in The Gambia.
Alieu Secka made this remark during an interview with the Daily Observer in his office at Golden Beach Hotel.He further said that he would not hesitate to say that this year's tourist season will emerge the best, compared to the previous years, adding that GHA as an association are working together to relieve and assess accommodation in other hotels, especially with the view not to inconvenient our guests.
Mr secka further went on to outline the reasons for the overbooking of hotels. He then added that the tour operators would like to give no full occupancy which, he noted was not the case as many hotels were only receiving between 30/40 of their allotment on an average basis.
"Therefore, hotels have had to take strategic decisions to improve on the occupancy in relation to the rooms contracted with tour operators. At the same time, hotels need to improve on their operational performance and occupancy in order to continue to operate and to provide employment and responsibilities to government in a form of taxation", he added.
Mr Secka further highlighted that GHA will continue to work together with tour operators in order to satisfy the increasingly popular guests to The Gambia.
Mr Secka briefly outlined some major concerns of the industry, noting that bumster menace is the number one among the whole lots.
He therefore urged the general public to retrain themselves from throwing objects that would litter the TDA area, and to ensure that the environment is little-free which, he said, will inturn give us less health hazards.
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