"We recommend changing your travel habits as one of the important steps you can take to remedy your impact on the climate." — Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, authors of The Future We Choose.
Our lives as humans are often one long quest for happiness, and the means to this...
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...
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) have earmarked activities and events under ‘December in GH’ flagship programme to consolidate government’s plan and quest to attract one million international tourists’ arrivals into the country this year.
In April this year, President Akufo-Addo launched ‘Destination...
Ahead of the ‘December in GH festivities’, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) together with key partners has organised a stakeholder engagement and customer service training programme in Tamale, targetting the informal sector in a bid to promote domestic tourism.
The programme was organised with support from the Ministry of Tourism,...
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture has said rehabilitation and modernisation work on the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park will be finalised and opened to the general public by end of the second quarter this year.
Renovating the facility, popularly known as Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, is expected to transform it...
As part of the Africa Travel Summit in Johannesburg, Airbnb has announced the Africa Pledge - a renewed commitment and US$500,000 fund to support inclusive and sustainable tourism growth across the continent.
Over the next two years, the pledge will help governments and tourism organisations across Africa identify and unlock...
For more than 50 years, Loiman Letolo, 70, has peddled her colourful beaded necklaces and bracelets to safari-goers at the entrance gates to Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve.
As the annual “Great Migration” of millions of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles into the Mara’s vast savannah gets underway, Letolo would normally...
Contradictions and irregularities in Ghana’s tourism sector figures are obstructing gains of the sector and hindering the need to potentially continue and build on advances in the industry. This phenomenon, according to tourism experts and industry players, could hamper proper planning and policy direction of the sector.
The immediate past...
…to deepen ‘Beyond the Return’ initiative
The Ministry of Tourism Arts, and Culture (MoTAC) and its implementing agency, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) are expecting some 150,000 visitors into the country as part of activities lined up to observe ‘December in GH’ events.
‘December in GH’, has since 2019, become a...
DEVELOPMENT is accountability is the first and foremost objective of our local governance and the decentralization framework the process as it currently stands is very slow as a result of the non-election of Mayors, Municipal Chief Executives and District Chief Executives, (MMDCEs) and Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies, (MMDAs),...