About ME

I am Omar. Omar Jabang

Also well known as Omi. So I named my tour and safari company Omi Tours.

My career as tour guide started when I graduated from high school. I joined Makasutu cultural forest local community tour guides unit. Where I was trained as a tour guide on nature and wildlife and tour guiding principles.

From there I work with another tour operator at Kotu before I establish my own company.

TESTIMONIALS

A few things clients says

Omi Tours put his client’s needs first. Take a moment to review what clients have to say about Omi Tours services.

We had an excellent trip with Omar through the Gambia, Senegal and Guinea Bissau. Omar is very knowledgable on the countries and the history and is always happy to answer questions. We are two girls travelling and felt safe and comfortable with Omar and the driver Lamin who both always put our safety first. The border crossings went smoothly, Omar is an expert in this. The hotels we stayed at on the journey were standard but all included air-con and hot water in the shower. The meals we had were great and Omar went out of his way to try and give us a local taste of the country. We always had plenty of water and an occasional snack on the drives. Omar is very friendly, smiley and makes the trip very enjoyable. We plan to book another trip with Omar to explore more West African countries. Highly recommend!

Hollie R-M

Wir waren 4 Personen und haben mit Omar einen 3-Tages-Trip von Banjul nach Bissau (2 Länder südlicher) gemacht. Alles war wahnsinnig gut organisiert und wir waren mit allem zufrieden. Omar und sein Team haben die Herausforderungen, die 2 Grenzübertritte, 300km staubige Pisten und unzählige Polizeikontrollen mit sich bringen, hervorragend gemeistert. Wir hatten tolle Abende mit Omar und seinem Team in Bissau und haben sehr viel erfahren!

Stefan Markt

My wife and I have just had the best day ever thanks to Omar we have just done the fatala game reserve tour with Omitours and it was great. After seeing Omitours website we booked the full day excursion with confidence, all communication with Omar before hand was quick and informative. We were picked up from our hotel promptly at 6.30am and from the very beginning Omar was welcoming and great. He provides a great insight into Gambiam life and traditions as we made our way into Senegal and the safari. We saw lots of wildlife in the park not always a given as it is wildlife and is free to roam over a large area. It was a great trip made all the better with Omar, book with confidence and make a new friend he is a genuine great guy and a very knowledgeable tour guide .

Jonathan Berwick

Great tour operator. On time and great trips.

Eelco van Gelderen

Omar (Omi) is an excellent guide very attentative and knowledgeable. We were staying in Bruffut about 40min drive from the main hotels but Omar was waiting outside our hotel at 9am as promised. We were on the boat by 10am and didn't return till after 4pm so a full day of relaxing, fishing (we caught 5 fish between 2 of us) and swimming!! Cost including all soft drinks and a buffet lunch. Highly recommended

Ikram Kathrada

Me and my group of 8 people on december 8th 2022 made adaily tour from Senegal to Banjul. Omar pick us up at the border, lead us on a city tour of Banjul also visting Bakau Crocodile pool. He was very kind and professionali and also charged a honest price. I do recommend him for any tour through Gambia, he is quite a reliable guy. Maurizio Codoni. Italy

Maurizio Codoni

Omi heeft ons een fantastische dag bezorgd. Zijn vriendelijke en bescheiden innerlijk maakt hem een goede tourguide. Lamin zijn chauffeur is ook een leuke en vriendelijke gast die hem mooi complimenteert. We hebben de krokodillen gezien, het apenbos en Albert market op zondag wanneer het relatief rustig is. Tijdens de tour zorgen ze er beide voor dat je niks tekort komt. Zeker de moeite waard om een dagje met hen op pad te gaan!

Nechwa De Jong

We enjoyed the lazy day on the river. Lazy in the sun, do some fishing and took a swim. Together with the drinks and the warm lunch, a well organized trip with a lot of laughs as well😀

Hilco Hamersma

I went on three separate trips with Omar during my visit to the Gambia. I found him to be a thoughtful and enthusiastic guide with a genuine concern for the happiness and wellbeing of his guests. I would recommend him without reservations.

R J

Omi Tours is fabulous. They arrange tours in small groups so you are the only ones. I work here and have used Omar several times for my own trips ans trips for visiting friends, he has taken them all over Gambia and Senegal. He genuinely cares about the people on his tours and makes sure you have an amazing time as well a being safe. He tailor made this epic day for me recently because I had a list of where I wanted to go and nothing was too much trouble. I will continue to use Omar and always recommend him.

SO1 West Africa PAWA BPST

Team of Omi Tours

Omi Tours is a ground tour operator registered in the Gambia, with a team of specialize people in the tourism service industry. More especially in the area of ecotourism, adventure travel, inland and river cruise excursion. Tourism is a service industry which is based on travel and hospitality between producers or called the host and consumers or called tourists.

Mission of Omi Tours

Omi Tours is a local ground tour operator that thrives to promote and contribute to tourism service industry in the Gambia, through providing major trips to our customers. It is not physically demanding as one may think, but we will do them to provide our customers the real value for the price that they pay to us. This is based on travel and hospitality between the producers or the host and the consumers or tourist. These are of course our aims to intermediate between the producers and the customers that would help to the two together to make the industry functional or achieve the tourism product.

Objectives of Omi tours

Tourism certainly increase employment opportunities within host communities as the service and hospitality industries hire more workers. One of our main objectives is to create employment opportunities for drivers, guides, bird watches and nature trackers and contribute to the national development in the tourism sector in the Gambia and contributing to the achievement of the world tourism Global Goals for sustainable tourism development. Recognizing fact that the reputation, performance, and the profitability of our ground tour company in its market largely will depends on the efficiency and effectiveness.

It is necessary for the ground tours to consider various factors before the selection of handling customers or guest’s functions and activities of the destination for the changing environment of the tourist.

Omi Tours have more professional and are bound to provide personalized ground tour operator services to the tourist. Below this would include among functions tone performed by our ground tour operator administrative services.

1. Inland and River cruise excursions arrangement
2. Contract and Negotiate with other vendors
3. Handling of tourists Arrival and departure procedure
4. Planning and organizing local package tour excursion
5. Escorting the tourist
6. Providing market information
7. Costing and pricing package tour

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