All the EcoT volunteers spent a week in Dakar for a much needed 3 day training followed by Senegal’s first ever International Tourism Conference. The training was helped answer a lot of our questions and gave us PCVs a solid direction of work and development.
The conference was exciting as all major tourism companies and agencies were represented. Senegal’s president, Abdoulaye Wade also made a special appearance, of whom I got about a 2 second glimpse. This conference also exercised my language skills once again, including newspaper and TV interviews in French and Wolof (Mom! I may have been on TV!).
After being away from site for an entire week, it’s time to get back to work. And now work on introducing Eco Tourism into my town as well.
--Byron Yee
Peace Corps Volunteer - Senegal, 2009
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