Gambia wants to encourage “quality tourists” to visit the country instead of just UK grannies looking for sex, which has become a serious problem in the country.
The tiny West African country has been turning into an increasingly popular sex retreat for older British women since the 1990s, when Thomas Cook started selling budget cheap package holidays to the former British colony.
But Thomas Cook went bust in 2019, and tourism to The Gambia reduced significantly. Though sex tourism, on the other hand, didn’t stop.
Speaking to The Telegraph, director of the Gambia Tourism Board Abubacarr S. Camara said officials have had enough, and want tourists that go to enjoy the country and its culture, “not tourists that come just for sex.”
He said the government is targeting higher-end tourists and millennia’s as opposed to older Brits.
