Saly (also called Sali or Saly Portudal ) is a seaside resort and urban commune in Thiès Region on the Petite Côte of Senegal , south of Dakar . It is a major tourist destination in Senegal.
12-507: Saly was originally a Portuguese trading post known as Porto de Ale , which became Portudal , and later Sali Portudal . It hosted Dutch merchants as well as the Portuguese by at least the late 16th century. On February 24, 1984, the resort was created on a previously unoccupied tract of land near the former trading post. It was about this time that tourism began to take off in Senegal . Saly
24-537: A French international school, is in Saly. Trading post A trading post , trading station , or trading house , also known as a factory in European and colonial contexts, is an establishment or settlement where goods and services could be traded. Typically the location of the trading post allows people from one geographic area to trade in goods produced in another area. In some examples, local inhabitants can use
36-581: A large part in managing these goods, where they were going, and when. Some goods exchanged at these trading posts and other parts of the Roman trade system were precious stones, fabrics , ivory , and wine . There is also evidence that they traded cattle at the Empúries trading post, established in the 6th century BCE, on the Iberian Peninsula. A trading house was typically strategically stocked with goods that
48-478: A trading post to exchange local products for goods they wished to acquire. A trading post can be either a single building or an entire town. Trading posts have been established in a range of areas, including relatively remote ones, but most often near the ocean, a river, or another natural resource . Major towns in the Hanseatic League were known as kontors , a form of trading posts. Charax Spasinu
60-565: A trapper, offered Kenneth McKenzie to serve as this contact and get the AFC into negotiations with the Blackfoot. The talks were successful, and McKenzie was able to build a trading post in Blackfoot territory, adjacent to the Missouri and Marias Rivers, naming it Fort McKenzie. Noochuloghoyet Trading Post was an American trading post established in the last 19th century, located in central Alaska adjacent to
72-572: Is part of M'bour , Thiès . The resort is located on a sandy beach lined with coconut palm trees. The population is difficult to quantify because of the constant stream of tourists in and out of the area as well as the number of temporary residents. It has been suggested that an average of 20,000 people live in the area at any given time. The resident population was counted at 41,811 in the 2023 census. Saly's economy relies almost entirely on tourism. Hotel complexes, nightclubs, bars, restaurants, shops, water sports, real estate agencies all compete for
84-658: The Native Americans would trade furs for; some of these goods included clothing, blankets, and corn. Eric Jay Dolin's Fur, Fortune, and Empire provides some historical context on events and the origins of trading posts in North America. One of the first examples given is that of the Kennebec Trading House, established in 1628 by the Plymouth colonists. The next event from Dolin's book features early conflicts between
96-716: The French and Plymouth colonists. This occurs in 1631 when the French go to the Plymouth Penobscot trading post. With the masters and most of the crew gone to get supplies, this left only a few servants to attend to the French. When the Frenchmen learned that this was the case, they decided to feign interest in a few of the guns available at the trading post, which they turned back onto the servants. They ordered for all things valuable, leaving with £500 of goods and £300 in beaver pelts. A good portion of Fur, Fortune, and Empire focuses on
108-405: The business of wealthy visitors from other countries. Seminars and symposiums are often held in Saly. The rapid development of mass tourism in a relatively poor country has had some negative consequences, such as petty crime, prostitution , pedophilia , and the spread of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases . For a long time, these social problems were not discussed publicly so that
120-694: The journey of John Jacob Astor, who founded the American Fur Company (AFC). One of the great feats achieved by the AFC was the establishment of a trading post in the native Blackfoot tribe's territory, located in modern-day Montana along the Rocky Mountains. The Blackfoot tribe had killed many Americans and, up to this point, only traded with the Hudson Bay Company. In order to erect a trading post in Blackfoot territory, they would need an inside contact to establish contact on their behalf. Jacob Berger,
132-558: The resort's reputation would not be tarnished. An observatory for the protection of children against abuse and sexual exploitation called Avenir de l'Enfant (The Child's Future) was created in M'bour by a Senegalese non-governmental organization in 2002. In 2003, M6 , a French television channel, broadcast a report focusing on Saly as part of the show Ça me révolte , meaning "That Disgusts Me". The show had hitherto focussed mainly on sex tourism in Asia . The Lycée Français Jacques Prévert ,
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#1732873245894144-559: Was a trading post between the Roman and Parthian Empires. Manhattan and Singapore were both established as trading posts, by Dutchman Peter Minuit and Englishman Stamford Raffles respectively, and later developed into major settlements. The Roman Empire could control such a large amount of land because of their efficient systems for spreading information, goods, and other supplies across large distances. Goods specifically were vital to fueling outposts in distant territories, like northern Africa and western Asia. Trading posts played
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