Bio

Adama Bah, Chairman Board of Director Institute of Travel and Tourism of Gambia (ITTOG). Adama Bah worked as a hotelier for 25 years and in 1995 formed a small advocacy group in Gambia known as Gambia Tourism Concern (GTC). During a GTC Workshop on Community Based Tourism Enterprises the idea of creating a trade association of small scale enterprises in tourism ASSET emerged. Adama co-founded the Institute of Travel and Tourism of Gambia and has been the Chairman of the board of directors since it was founded in 2008. Furthermore Adama Bah founded the International Centre for Responsible Tourism-West Africa. It was established as a network of tourism professionals and regional training centre in West Africa to help in the training of a significant number of Gambian and West African men and women on issues of Responsible Tourism.