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Gambia, Netherlands sign air service agreement

Xinhua, June 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

Gambia and the Netherlands have agreed on a bilateral air service, a Gambian official said Monday.

The move will improve Gambia's tourism sector as almost 30,000 tourists from the Netherlands are expected to come to Gambia in the 2015-2016 tourism season, said Abdoulie Jammeh, director of Gambia Civil Aviation.

The Netherlands is the second major contributor of tourists to Gambia after Britain.

Due to the Ebola epidemic outbreak in Africa, the number of foreign tourists in Gambia dropped heavily last year. Endi