By: Nyima Sillah
The Gambia Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has disclosed that this year’s national trade fair will be held in Brusubi.
Speaking to The Voice exclusively, GCCI Manager for Cooperative Services, Theresa Diarra, said “we have realized that every year the demand for stalls increases so we are increasing the stalls from what we had last year. And also, the demand for the stalls has been increasing yearly and since demand is so high, we decided to move from the independence stadium to our own site.”
According to her, over four hundred and fifty stalls will be erected at the GCCI national trade fair site in Brusubi for this year’s international trade fair in other to create more capacity for businesses and bring the trade fair to their home.
“The prices for the stalls will remain the same for none members is D12,000 and the members will get discount as their price is D10, 200. Currently we are not making reductions of stalls, we all know that prices have been increasing year in year out and the trade fair, we incur a lot of expenses and those expenses continue to increase. Also, going to our own site is quite a number of investments that has been made into the trade fair,” she added.
She said they are currently looking at the sub region. Adding that they do have other countries coming in but they are yet to receive the entire number of international participants.
“We are also looking possibilities of having international participants not only in the sub region. It will be the biggest trade fair we have had so far and works are underway at the site to ensure that all the facilities are ready for the participants,” she explained.
“We are very aware that Covid-19 is still around and in the previous trade fair we ensured that wearing of facemasks were mandatory and hand sanitisers stationed around the trade fair. The reason why they do trade fair is to showcase a platform for young entrepreneurs to expose their product not only in the Gambian population but then potential partners as well because we have businesses from other countries,” she continued.
She called on everyone to support and patronise because it is going to bigger this year.
