* Currency: Dalasi divided into 100 Butut.
* Credit Cards: Visa, Mastercard, Access, American Express and Diners Club are widely accepted in good hotels, restaurants and some stores on the coast.

* Banking Hours: 0800 to 1330 Monday to Thursday and 0800 to 1100 Friday.

* Currency Restrictions: The import of local currency is not limited but export is limited up to 75 Dalasi. The import of foreign currency is not limited and export of foreign currency is permitted up to the amount imported.
 

* Agriculture: The most important activity: groundnuts, cotton, rice, millet, sorghum, fruit, vegetables, livestock.

* Mining: None.

* Manufacturing: Groundnut processing, brewing, soft drinks, assembly of agricultural machinery, clothing.

* Other: Tourism is an important industry with many packages available from Europe summer and winter.

Gambia - Language

* * Official: English.

* Other: Wolof, Mandinga, Fulani.

* Tribes: Mandingo, Fulani, Wolof, Jola, Serahuli.

+ GAMBIA, BANJUL
- Ministry of Information and Tourism
- The Quadrangle
- Banjul
- Tel: 28496
- Tlx: 2204
+ UK, LONDON
- Gambia National Tourist Office
- 37 Kensington Court
- London W8 5DG
- Tel: (0171) 937 6316
- Tlx: 911857

Visas

* Countries whose nationals do not require a visa include:
+ Antigua & Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Canada, Cote d'Ivoire, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Finland, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Luxembourg, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Mauritius, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Isles, Spain, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Sweden, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Tuvalu, Uganda, UK (British subjects being a 'Citizen of the united Kingdom and Colonies'), Uruguay, Vanuatu, Zambia.

* Countries whose nationals do require a visa include:
+ All countries not mentioned above.

* Visas are issued at Gambian Embassies and High Commissions.
VISA SERVICES

* Advice, information and full visa service from:

* Action Visas
for worlwide visa service, central London based:
phone # 0171 388 4498
fax # 0171 916 0671