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you know the books on youtube. this week on the 77 percent street. i believe the minister have to understand that his country is being labeled as a sex tourist destination it's going to be very difficult to take away sex tourism from a country that he's mostly dependent on tourism is saying that foreigners and tirzah treated better than gamete and have a better. argument about that most of the governors are lame ducks the government you will have a lot of work to do because you're not doing what you. told the mining coast of africa and looking at the shorelines across the atlantic it's

easy to see why the gambia is a very popular destination for tourists but equally those escaping the winter in europe but what are some of the unintended consequences of tourism well i have a group of young people here who are going to help me answer that question and i'm going to start with killer actually a rapper but he uses his music. until you find the voice of young people and the issues around him so killer ace i've had it said that the gambia is a sex tourism hotspot is a true. absolutely it definitely has a hospital. i can understand if it was only limited towards people who are on the same category as adults but it's even went down to a level where you see paedophilia like on a rapid basis children as young as 9 years old you know being preyed on by tourists you know so it's not just the sex tourism of prostitutes and women of beautiful gagnon women you know but also the young generation who are coming up and are being exploited by you know sex tourism ok i want to speak to somebody who is actually an

official from the tourism ministry mr hemingway john you are the senior product development office saying the ministry you had with the young man has said but you minister has said that. this is not true so where is the contradiction when you say it is a sex tourism destination that's where the const contradiction is. nobody is saying there is no sex tourism in the grammar of what is the core of the success stories in this nation that it looks like to hold this nation is prepared you know. proud of developed you know market sex tourism business which is the minister's argument ok so potato potato here it sounds to me but when you deny that this is really happening in the country don't you think you also deny people a chance to solve the problem again i insist on what i say have a beginning that there's no denial of sex tourism taking place in the country because we're seeing it what we're denying is. who is in destination so it's not. it's this is the difference you need to draw the line between the 2 where the

destination is the sex tourism destination or sex tourism going on if you have sex tourism is going on particularly myself i've been in the industry for such a long time and i've seen sex tourism practices i'm not denying it but if the minister says it's not a sex tourism business and i'm not aware of that. ok yeah i mean my point being i believe the minister have to understand that his country is being labeled as a sex tourist destination by who the sex tourists who come there and feedback information and market as a sex tourist destination and i believe that's what they have to understand and come up with more strategies to counter that sort of what comes and they come back to the. other side culturally music you know but not as a sex tourist destination because as soon as they come to something we all do honestly that's the 1st thing you see majority of the europeans talking to some old lady looking for a young man who is you know potent enough you know to take care of her sexually or

the other way around because it actually exists on a large scale here in the gallery ok so i think we can definitely agree that sex tourism definitely happening here we're not making it up even the person from the ministry says that he has witnessed it so i want to come to you but she's a journalist for the purposes of this conversation she's also a women's rights activist so how did this all begin take me through it because the country doesn't just host 6 troops out of nowhere actually is very very it's going to be very difficult to. take away sex tourism from a country that is mostly dependent on tourism in itself but this is something that was saying the part has been really happening and for that reason officials take it very very seriously when you come to say for instance this is a place where we have a lot of tourists coming to and so what happens or interesting thing is that they make sure that people or young girls under the age of 18 find it very difficult to access these places will also have the sexual offenses out that also condemns sex i

mean and to sex tourism in the country but also when you go to hotels you have these athletes and it's written and very modified for them to for tours themselves to understand that you cannot take part in these practices in this country when you go to the communities themselves where sometimes when tourists come to engage in sex tourism you go to the communities because they know when you come to the hotels then you might be tracked easily ok so you have let's let's not let's not jump the gun here because i think we're talking about regulation and we still don't know what the real problem is because we're talking about these stories coming into stories coming in but they're engaging with gun dealers so why are gambians participating so that's actually the point that you make because there's a problem we have to sensitize the gaming communities a little bit more there's got to be a grassroots effort to educate the families because at the end of the day a family is poor they're making a $1000.00 see a mother and almost certain this white european male or female comes without 1000

of dollars offer to take their child to europe give them a visa give them a better life they turn a blind eye and that is what the issue is and i think it starts with the young people as well because some of them are no they're anything they're 17 they're 16 they know what these people are coming here for but again it's the poverty at the same time though the hotel they can't turn a blind eye the policeman can't run the. sure that everything is and in place so when these pedophiles all these dirty harry's that's what we call them dirty harrys back in the day these dirty harry said. when they come to the gambia they know there is a no nonsense policy ok i want to speak to a gentleman from the tourism committee to see mr leyland challenge is it a question of marketing or is it just that people have become complacent that this is how things work here and this is how they will continue to work there is from thing that we call responsible tourism and discuss who is tourists that are coming here and the people that they are meeting here so we all have to be responsible to make sure that you know we ensure that our spirit. is responsible and you know

who may have come here just to have you know form 6 whatever but we also have responsible tours. to develop our local communities i think be something that is a holistic approach that we need to take at least. you know responsible is in the. on the ministry ok got this police already in place i'll come back and ask about implementation but i want to go back to something that you set fire to which is that this is a cause and effect of 6 years in the cause being unemployment and can you talk to me about that was a situation like for young people here well it's very very. this courageous because like we were talking about a town we have about 41.5 percent of young people who are unemployed in this country so you will realize that there is a high tendency of young people getting themselves involved in certain acts that can just give them income and when you when you come to become gambia you realize

it's a low income country it's a developing country it takes a bad leader people sensitizing south as well the officials also taking it upon themselves to make this family understand why is it so important to be patient if they can't go you know or out and make something.