Purpose of SAPCO-SENEGAL

The Société d'Aménagement et de Promotion des Côtes et Zones Touristiques du Sénégal (SAPCO-SENEGAL) is a public limited company created in 1975 with a capital of 1.2 billion CFA francs 98.75% owned by the company. State of Senegal and 1.25% by the Société Nationale de Recouvrement (SNR). Initially set up to implement tourist development on the Petite Côte, SAPCO-SENEGAL has seen its intervention extended to the national level since the extension of its powers in 2004.

At the end of a new General Agreement signed on November 21, 2013 with the State of Senegal, the Government assigned to SAPCO-SENEGAL the fundamental objective of creating, developing and promoting tourism.

Mission of SAPCO-SENEGAL

In order to achieve its objective, SAPCO-SENEGAL has been entrusted with the following missions:

• Constitute Zones of Tourist Interest (ZIT) throughout the national territory to ensure land control;
• Register the identified ITZs in the name of the State;
• Look for national and foreign investors likely to finance hotel and para hotel projects on the different identified sites;
• Create tourist resorts on these sites, in particular by carrying out basic amenities (roads and various networks), community facilities and a planted environment;
• Transfer or rent serviced or unserviced land to qualified promoters or managers;
• Ensure compliance, by developers called upon to establish themselves in the area, with planning and architectural standards and rules, within the framework of the development plan established by the government.
• Manage tourist resorts by ensuring the maintenance of equipment, cleanliness and environmental health, the safety of people and goods, the promotion of investments to attract a maximum of customers and finally ensure the animation;
• And generally, all commercial, financial and real estate operations directly or indirectly linked to this objective and likely to facilitate its achievement.