As in the north, the tourism sector is at half-mast in the center of Mali because of security concerns. This causes a loss of revenue for the state and weakens very directly guidebooks. The latter, who accompanied the tourists on the move, are now helpless.
In the town of Mopti, also called the Venice of Mali, one hardly sees more tourist guides operating. The tourists have deserted the region because of the crisis.
Yaya Tangara directs an association of tour guides, he recounts his daily: "We have nothing, nothing at all. Pay the rent, it is a problem. Pay the schooling of children is a problem. Paying room, it's a problem. "
Retraining
In this region, more than a thousand people, whose job was to accompany tourists and show them the wonders of central Mali, are starting to change jobs to survive. Djibril Kassogué became such peasant: "Here, we begin to cultivate millet village, beans, cereals."
"Since 2012 we have almost more work. I actually I evolve by making small trade "reflects the former tourist guide, Alim Diallo. Unfortunately, although activity less profitable than his former profession.
