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SENEGAL,
WEST AFRICA SECTION PAGE Reasons to Visit
and Invest in Senegal A A healthy and competitive
economy Human resources of
quality Modern and performance
infrastructures A lawful framework and
fiscal renovated A privileged access to the
regional and international markets A life quality exceptional
Senegal News and
Information Sources Senegal Tourism Office USA Senegal Embassy USA Ecowas Charte de l'Organisation de l'Unité
Africaine Did
you know that Dakar, Sénégal hosted
ATA's very first Ecotourism Symposium? that's
right, and a large share of the thanks should go to
our friend, the late Eunice Rawlings. Eunice lived
and worked there for several years and remained
devoted to West Africa and to the Africa Travel
Associaiton. We miss her warm smile and wonderful
companionship.
Senegal
has been developing its tourism since the early
1970s and is now receiving some half a million
tourists a year. There a WTO project, financed by
UNDP, aimed at studying tourism's impact on the
country's economy. "We will be assessing what new
opportunities there are, and how to improve
management to increase the benefits from tourism
said Mr. Ndiaye. With most of the travel
industry run by foreigners, one objective will be
to seek ways for easing bank lending facilities to
enable the Senegalese themselves to play a greater
role. He hopes that cooperatives can be set up to
promote cultural tourism, giving visitors a change
to stay in villages and join in everyday rural
activities. The University of the
Future African will receive between 2500 and 5000
students The University of
Future for Africa (UFA) will have a capacity of
2500 students in the first three years of its
opening and 5000 students in the long term, for his
maximum capacity, announced President Abdoulaye
Wade the Head of the Republic of
Senegal. According President
Wade who is the originator of the establishment,
the students will come from all countries without
distinction of origin. They will receive, at the
beginning, a teaching on public administration,
management, New Information Technologies. The
University of Future for Africa will allow, thanks
to inter-academics agreements, African students to
follow by satellite in real time the same courses
as the students of the university institutions with
which it will have to sign these
agreements. For President
Abdoulaye Wade that will make it possible for
African students of the UFA to obtain not
equivalent diplomas, always prone to discussion,
but instead identical diplomas. The diplomas are
co-signed by the foreign university chosen and the
UFA. The students will have access to affordable
housing, as an option, Wade underlined whose
article was illustrated by several photographs
showing the model of the university establishment
in its various facets. (Source:
APS) With most of the
travel industry run by foreigners, one objective
will be to seek ways for easing bank lending
facilities to enable the Senegalese themselves to
play a greater role. He hopes that cooperatives can
be set up to promote cultural tourism, giving
visitors a change to stay in villages and join in
everyday rural activities. Tourism
Growth: Africa shows positive
increase
About
Muguette
Goufrani,
Africa Travel Magazine's Francophone Editor covers
West African destinations and events in detail. Her
native language is French and she has lived in five
West African countries, working for Air Afrique,
Royal Air Maroc and Citroen. As a Travel Agent, she
worked in North Africa, where her family operates
an inbound tour company, and later in Tahiti and
Cambodia. Muguette has been a partner in the
magazine since it was founded in 1995.
E-mail
Muguette
with your travel experiences in Cote d'Ivoire and
other West African destinations. We welcome your
input.
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stable and open country
Congratulations
Sénégal on your Pioneering Efforts in
Ecotourism