Case study Senegal: The cultural heritage of the Island of Gorée as a tourist resource

Despite the development opportunity brought by tourism, Gorée’s territorial and social problems have worsened in the last decades, mainly as a consequence of bad governance, while its local population has been unable to improve its living conditions through this activity. Gorée tourist development would benefit greatly from a greater connection to the UNESCO Slave Route.

The article describes very briefly the development and critical aspects of cultural tourism on the island of Gorée, world-famous destination for memory turism connected to the slave trade.