Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), in collaboration with ‘They Often Cry Outreach’ (TOCO) Foundation, has launched the African-Diaspora Youth Festival to create opportunities through networking.
The event christened: ‘Hands Across Africa Festival and Expo 2022’, also has TOCO Youth Tournament in sports that aims at helping the African youths to gain...
Kwahu is one of the major tourist destinations in Ghana in the last decades. This is due to its nature, interesting, unique, and fantastic ancient culture and art sites. Creative industries and ceramic crafts play an important role in the development of tourism in Kwahu.
The ethnographic approach is used...
Festival tourism is a rapidly growing model of tourism on which many nations are capitalizing to shore up the benefits of tourism. Festival tourism is however usually distinguished from other occasions because of their tendency to take their significance and validity from people's ethnic uniqueness and help to delineate...
The travel industry is one of the biggest and quickest developing areas in the worldwide economy, bringing new open doors for some nations, urban communities, and areas while simultaneously introducing many new difficulties. Proceeded development is causing tension in the framework, the climate, neighborhood networks, other financial areas, furthermore...
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The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Sunday, 3rd April 2022, launched one of his government’s flagship projects in our tourism sector, dubbed “Destination Ghana”, in London, United Kingdom. The “Destination Ghana” London event is the first in a series...
International business solutions expert and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Akwaaba UK - renowned Ghanaian international event and marketing communications company - Mr. Dennis Tawiah, has revealed his company’s readiness and willingness to partner and support the government of Ghana’s effort to attract more tourists and investment to Ghana.
President Nana...
HOHOE Municipal Assembly (HoeMA) has given fresh impetus and a very big shoot in the arm to the Local Economic Development (LED) strategy, the core objective of the national Local Governance and Decentralization and Development (LG&DD) framework with an upcoming Tourism and Investment Expo, 2022.
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The Hohoe Municipal Chief Executive...
Executive Director, Wholesale and Investment Banking - GCB Bank, Sam Aidoo, has reiterated that promoting the tourism sector, particularly domestic tourism, demands a collective effort of all stakeholders with each playing respective roles so the industry can harness gains.
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture this year aims at...
Ghana made international headlines in 2019 when the government launched the ‘Year of Return’ to mark 400 years after the first slaves from West and Central Africa landed in the Americas. Spiritually, the Year of Return was designed to entice Africans and Africans in the Diaspora to reconnect to...
Situation threatens ‘Destination Ghana’ agenda
With a chunk of international tourists’ budget being expended on hotel accommodation, the Ghana Hotels Association (GHA) is worried the phenomenon could derail government’s ‘Destination Ghana’ campaign for this year.
Data from the GHA show that international tourists spend almost 60 percent of their budget...