THE world's most famous tour operator Thomas Cook has launched in Ireland and taken the Panorama and Sunworld brands under its umbrella.
The new company Thomas Cook Ireland features all the same accommodation as the other two companies previously offered and
also has Direct Holidays, Club 18-30 and Thomas Cook Cruises, Weddings and Sport in its brand.The new branding also coincided with the launch of the group's latest offering for 2012. Thomas Cook Far and Away features far flung destinations such as Mexico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Gambia and Goa.
Alongside cruises to the Galapagos Islands and Alaska, they have a wide range of escorted tours, including the Rocky Mountains by rail and the safari parks of South Africa.
Launch deals for Far and Away include 11 nights in the 4-star Laico Atlantic in Banjul Beach in Gambia next March, all-inclusive from €849, while 14 nights over Christmas and New Year in Goa in the 3-star Colonia Santa Maria at Baga Beach, also all inclusive, is on offer from €1789, departing December 20.
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Import Export in the Gambia - Business & Trade Investments in West Africa
West Africa has a potential market of over 270 million consumers, and offers real business opportunities for manufacturing and exporting companies wishing to build a market share in the emerging markets of Africa.
The Gambia is blessed with a long and glorious tradition of trade. It is strategically situated at the African end of the Atlantic Trade Triangle, a trade route dating back into centuries between Africa, Europe and the USA, Central and Latin America.
The Gambia has the nearest harbour on the African continent to both Europe and the Americas and within West African countries, Banjul Port in The Gambia is unrivalled, turning around vessels much faster than the regional competition. The Port of Banjul is also widely recognised for its safety, service reliability and unrivalled management system and has become the port of choice for the shipping, importation and distribution of products, goods and commodities to the whole of West Africa.
The Gambia has become an important West African investment & business centre and an ideal launch pad for trade with neighbouring West African countries Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau and Mauritania. and also further afield to import and export to English speaking Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Liberia and to French speaking Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger,and Togo and Portuguese speaking Cape Verde.
The Port of Banjul is continuously being upgraded and modernised to meet the needs of a growing trade sector stimulated by the Gambia Trade Gateway Project.
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Egypt is not the sole option for African sunshine. A six-hour flight from London, Gambia is the leading West African beach hotspot for British travellers. There is not much of this narrow slice of a nation – the smallest country on the African continent, a thin wedge driven into the side of Senegal – but what there is comes dotted with unfussy retreats such as the four-star Ocean Bay Resort, near Banjul.
The Gambia Scorpions VS The Burkina Faso Stallions
Wrestling is the traditional national sport of The Gambia; however football (soccer) is clearly the most popular sport in The Gambia today. Gambians also enjoy cricket, golf, sailing, sport fishing, and surfing. Almost every school and village in The Gambia has a football pitch, and on most side streets you can find youths participating in an impromptu football game. On October 8th some friends came over to my house and we got ready to walk over to International Stadium (just two blocks from my house) for a game between the national football teams of The Gambia and Burkina Faso. The game was a qualifying match that was to determine whether The Gambia Scorpions would make it to The Africa Cup of Nations. Well the game was a draw with a final score of 1-1, so The Scorpions did not make it but we still had a good time. Here are some pictures from the game, click on the pictures to enlarge them...
Tickets to the game!
These guys are Burkina Faso Stallions fans.
President's Mother - I Want My Son to Go On a 'Thank You' Tour
The mother of the president of the Republic has said that she wants her son to go on a tour of the country to express gratitude to the electorate for giving him a five-year mandate to rule The Gambia.
Aja Ashombi Bojang was speaking during an interview with Kamakalorr, a GRTS Jola programme aired Wednesday evening. Speaking in Jola, Aja Ashombi said: "I am not saying he [President Jammeh] should campaign, but rather go on a 'thank you' tour in order to thank the electorate for giving him a five-year mandate."
She noted that many Gambians always say 'thanks' to the president each time he does something good for them. "So I thought it is prudent that he too should do the same," she added.
Aja Ashombi disclosed that just last week dozens of beneficiaries of the President Alternative Treatment Programme (PATP) were in Kanilai to assist the president in his farm as a way of thanking him for the free treatment given to them.
She added: "I am emphasising that my son should go on a 'thank you' tour. I have to again emphasise that I am not saying he should go and campaign. The five-year mandate given to him is coming to an end, so he should go and thank the electorate. This is my wish as a mother."