Best Western Premier Hotel has been adjudged the best four-star hotel in the country by the Ghana Tourism Authority at the 10th Ghana Tourism Awards held in Accra. The sprawling hospitality facility beat stiff competition to scoop the coveted award on the back of winning the award for the same...
I came across a news item in which the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC) disclosed that illegal mining is a major factor in the increase of HIV/AIDS infections in the country. The Director-General of the GAC, Dr. Kyeremeh Atuahene, also indicated that tourism may increase infection rates in the country....
Ghana and the United State of America have agreed to collaborate to promote tourism, arts and culture between the two countries. This was the outcome of a meeting held in Accra on Friday, 23rd September 2022 between the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Ibrahim Mohammed Awal and the...
The tourism industry, which is often referred to as an “invisible export”, is significant in the economic and social development of a country. The American news network CNN rankled Ghana the fourth out of nineteen countries as top destinations in the world to visit. Traditionally developing countries such as Ghana...
… domestic tourists must be the focus The Pan African Historical Theatre Project now known as PANAFEST was mooted by the late Efua Sutherland in the mid-1980s as a cultural vehicle for bringing Africans on the continent and in the Diaspora together around the issues raised by slavery which...
Ghana Education Service is a very reliable partner in the promotion of domestic tourism. Many initiatives have been made in the past geared towards the promotion of domestic tourism. As far back as 2012, as part of measures to promote domestic tourism, the Ministry for Tourism, Culture and Creative...
The Ghana India Trade Advisory Chamber (GITAC) has called for increased media support for the country’s tourism sector. The Chamber’s President, Dominic Oduro Antwi, said the media has the responsibility to educate the global community about the Ghanaian culture and the various tourist sites in order to increase visitor numbers...
Today, August 6, women-led B2B Enterprise Development Agency, ScaleUp Africa, will virtually host its inaugural Pan-African Business Festival- ‘IGNITE’ set to promote access to enterprise growth resources for entrepreneurs of African Descent, globally. The festival is poised to nurture closer economic ties and opportunities for youth and women-led small businesses...
The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) has brought a delegation of 40 young students on a transformative journey to Ghana as part of the Amos C. Brown Fellowship. To commemorate the ‘Beyond the Return’ initiative – a 10-year project of connecting the diaspora community to Africa...
If there is any sector that suffered hugely under the COVID-19 pandemic, then it is the tourism and hospitality sector. To this end, the Ghana Hotels Association (GHA) is bemoaning neglect from the government, saying that even though there were several interventions announced to support the business community, many of...