The Paramount Chief of Efutu Traditional Area, Neenyi Ghartey VII, has given his blessings to this year’s Youth in Tourism in Festival 2022 (YOTOFEST22). The week-long event is jointly being organised by the Tourism Society of Ghana (TOSOGHA) and the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) from July 19 to...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) with young people, local authorities and with support from the Migration Information Centre in Sunyani, have launched the “WAKAWell, Fa Kwan Pa So” Campaign in Sunyani yesterday.
The campaign aims at preventing exploitation associated with irregular migration by empowering young people in the Bono...
THE HOSPITALITY subsector in the tourism product-mix covers accommodation, catering, food, beverages and entertainment facilities.
The Ghanaian hospitality industry has seen sustained and exponential phenomenal growth in both quality and quantity over the years. It has also stood-out as the biggest and largest growth area in Ghana’s tourism-mix and has...
The Mayor of New York, Mr. Eric Adams, has expressed his determination to support Ghana’s tourism drive aimed at making the country the tourism hub of Africa.
In this regard, the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (MOTAC) and the office of the New York Mayor will work out joint...
The Managing Director of GCB Bank PLC, Mr. Kofi Adomakoh, has given assurance of supporting the tourism sector of the Ghanaian economy toward realisation of the sector’s potential.
He said the tourism sector has the potential to rake in more funds for the economy, and that GCB will offer the...
Travel & Tourism GDP growth set to outpace the overall economy for the next 10 years
The World Travel & Tourism Council’s latest Economic Impact Report (EIR) reveals the African Travel & Tourism sector is expected to create almost 14million new jobs over the next decade.
The positive forecast from...
Some few weeks ago, I attended an event at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), dubbed: ‘Greater Accra Investment Opportunities Conference’. This was a collaborative programme between the AGI President and the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey. It was under the theme: ‘The New Face of Greater Accra: Collaborative...
Tourism Potential-Mix Outlook
Ghana has and boasts of a collection of remarkable man-made, natural, cultural and heritage resources, together with some historic natural landmarks, including the exact centre of our country and its associated natural landmarks at Kintampo in the Kintampo North Municipality at Kintampo in the Bono East Region,...
Need for Hospitality Legislation, Legal Regime & National Hospitality Development Blueprint
The hospitality tourism sub-sector covers accommodation and catering (food and beverages), fast food restaurants, coffee/tea shops, highway rest stops, night clubs, the entertainment and conference aspects in the tourism-mix.
Strategic Role
It is the major key man-made, crucial and essential element...
TOURISM is a very broad holistic industry which is composed of and is founded on man-made, natural, cultural and heritage resources. Destinations and tourism industry stakeholders, practitioners and players have never paid equal attention to and promoted balanced development of all four main broad classifications and much more their...