Gabon, a small central African nation which touts itself as the "Last Eden", attracts around 350,000 foreign visitors a year. It wants to double that figure, a likely priority for the winner of Saturday's presidential election. Key to that effort could be the charms of Pointe-Denis, a peninsula where wealthy Gabonese and expats from Libreville head to escape the city for a few days. Some pockets of the destination equally aim to develop community tourism, aimed at "regular Gabonese people", says guide Gerard Adande Avili.
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00:00I'm going to go to the Baie des Tortures because usually I see it on social media and I tell you
00:12if we have good tourist places like that, I have to go to the Baie des Tortures.
00:30We put the rain on the ground.
00:36We put the rain on the ground.
00:40We have created this concept of tourism community at Pointe-de-Denis, which is to allow
01:01to visit the Pointe-de-Denis, to know the rich and beauty of our Pointe-de-Denis,
01:20which is first from our Congo Océan and from the Gabon.
01:34This is a sign of identification.
01:40We are a bit in a kind of vicious circle, a kind of tohibo.
01:46Yes, that means that we want to open our communities,
01:55but in the same way, we must preserve this mystic side.
02:01And I believe that if we find the right combination,
02:07I think that tourism will have more facilitation to exploit it.
02:16We don't have the tourism culture.
02:33Whether it be the leaders or the population, we don't have the tourism culture
02:38we have put an accent on oil.
02:41And we have forgotten the tourism potential of our countries
02:44because, I say frankly, the Gabon can live without tourism.
02:47That's the first problem.
02:49And we are putting an accent on this tourism culture.
02:52We are going to form those who are in the community,
02:55but we are going to form the whole population.
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