The reorganization of the Tourist Police is one of the urgent measures that President Bassirou Diomaye Dakhar Faye expects from his Prime Minister and his government, to not only revive the sector and promote the tourist sites and potential of Senegal, but also strengthen securing all tourist sites and establishments in the country.
Tourism represents a strategic sector in the deployment of Vision Senegal 2050 and job creation, recalled yesterday, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye during the meeting of the Council of Ministers.
But certain incidents, such as the armed attack perpetrated last weekend against the Riu Baobab hotel reception, located in Pointe Séréne, risk undermining this expectation. And the head of state seems to be aware of this.
Indeed, Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye invited the Prime Minister and the Minister of Tourism and Crafts to take all necessary measures to consolidate, in permanent consultation with stakeholders, the revival of the sector and the promotion of sites and tourism potential of Senegal. He underlined “the urgency of strengthening the security systems of all areas and all tourist sites and establishments in Senegal by reorganizing in particular the tourist police”.
Thus, notes the council press release, President Faye “asked the Prime Minister to hold in the coming days, an interministerial council on tourism which will have to deal with all the urgent and appropriate measures to be taken to strengthen the bold development of the sector” .
-Previously, he stressed that “Vision Senegal 2050 is betting on strengthening the leading role of the private sector in national economic and social development. To this end, the President of the Republic asked the Prime Minister to initiate pragmatic consultations with industrialists and economic operators in order to determine the consensual modalities for steering the development of the national private sector, taking into account all the constraints and opportunities linked in the international context.
In his opinion, “these consultations are essential to accelerate the finalization of the bill on economic sovereignty which will be the political translation of our collective and resolute desire to build an endogenous economy, the driving force of the systemic transformation of Senegal”. In this perspective, the Prime Minister was called upon to “supervise the effective restructuring of the overall framework for promoting the attractiveness of Senegal and the competitiveness of the national economy by consolidating and undertaking priority reforms relating to each sector and each ministry”.
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