Tourism has been a growing industry in Senegal for well over a decade. In 2000, it was ranked as the country’s second largest industry after fishing and before groundnuts and phosphates. The sector has created economic growth particularly in the Petite Côte, Senegal’s principal tourist region where a resort originally built around a fishing village, Saly, has become an international tourist destination.
Senegal has a variety of first-rate natural assets that help make it an attractive destination: six national parks and four reserves, a variety of birds, some wildlife, and access to big game fishing and scuba diving. But it is the people, their music, culture and handicrafts that make Senegal what it is: a great, diverse and very colourful country.
