{"id":23039,"date":"2022-10-17T18:15:14","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2"},"modified":"2022-10-17T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T20:06:10","slug":"gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2","title":{"rendered":"GT Board says planned November 11 protest not good for tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Tabora Bojang<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>With the first tourist flight of the season already arived to much fanfare and hope, Tourism officials have however said they are worried about threats of instability that can derail the confidence built around this year\u2019s season.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists at the welcome ceremony of the first flight, Friday, the Director General of the Gambia Tourism Board Abubacarr Camara said, specifically, he is worried that the November 11 protest planned by the Coalition of Progressives could affect the new tourism season because there is no guarantee that it is going to be peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is our fear. Even the timing is wrong,\u201d Abubacarr Camara told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>He added that what Gambians should do at all times is to promote the maintenance of peace because that is the best way to solve any problem that the country is facing. \u201cThe Gambia\u2019s asset is its reputation as a peaceful country and that is why we all have to sensitise fellow citizens on the need to preserve that. Demonstrations are not going to help that image,\u201d DG Camara said.<\/p>\n<p>53 flights weekly Mr. Camara disclosed that the coming season looks very promising with about 20 chartered and 33 scheduled flights expected weekly in Banjul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great achievement. We all know we are coming from a very difficult time with the Covid-19 pandemic. So this a big come back. We want to encourage our stakeholders to improve their standards with the little resources they have because we will not compromise standards. Our inspectors will be going round and we will not mind closing any business found below standard,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source: The Gambia | Standard News From The Gambia<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabora Bojang Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. With the first tourist flight of the season already arived to much fanfare and hope, Tourism officials have however said they are worried about threats of instability that can derail the confidence built around this year\u2019s season. Speaking to journalists at the welcome ceremony of the first flight, Friday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2355,2361,260,8660,1871],"class_list":["post-23039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia","tag-gt","tag-tourism"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GT Board says planned November 11 protest not good for tourism - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With the first tourist flight of the season already arived to much fanfare and hope, Tourism officials have however said ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GT Board says planned November 11 protest not good for tourism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With the first tourist flight of the season already arived to much fanfare and hope, Tourism officials have however said ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-17T18:15:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-17T20:06:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634db59aaa6d6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"656\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"387\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"GT Board says planned November 11 protest not good for tourism\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-17T18:15:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-17T20:06:10+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\"},\"wordCount\":298,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_4-634db59aaa6d6.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\",\"GT\",\"Tourism\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gt-board-says-planned-november-11-protest-not-good-for-tourism-2\",\"name\":\"GT Board says planned November 11 protest not good for tourism - 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