The Ghana Hotels Association has petitioned the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) over high water tariffs, which it said is having a negative impact on its members.
While hoteliers expected an 8.3 percent adjustment as announced by the PURC earlier in the first quarter of this year - which translates...
The Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, has approved the establishment of a creative arts court to deal with all pending and future arbitrations concerning the industry in an expeditious manner, to protect the rights and interests of creative art practitioners.
Announcing the decision, the Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng-Gyasi,...
The leadership of the Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) has paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr. Mohammed Ibrahim Awal to discuss issues of interest to the sector.
The executives of the GCF called on the Minister to congratulate him on his appointment and to...
The Ministry of Tourism Arts and Culture has entered into a partnership agreement with Fundación INCYDE, a Spanish entity, to train 150,000 people in Ghana’s tourism value chain.
The training will start in November 2021 and focus on skills development for staff of restaurants, hotels, travel and tour companies, tour...
GTA projects GH¢15.9m profit in 2022
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has collected revenue of GH¢15.1million, being the amount accrued from payments of the 1 percent tourism levy into the Tourism Development Fund (TDF) during the 2021 operational year, the Fund’s Administrator, Prince Yaw Essah, has revealed.
Mr. Essah was...
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...
Any player within the travel industry will tell you how dependent their businesses are dependent on the dollar. Businesses such as car rental companies, travel agencies, hotels, tour operators and so on and so forth. If you place a call to a car rental company requesting to book a...
Meditour Travel and Hospitality Services, in partnership with the South African High Commission, has launched their maiden Medical Tourism travel package in Accra.
Speaking at the launch ceremony, executive director of Meditour Travel and Hospitality Services, Mr. Russell Banful, indicated that his company’s aim is to help Ghanaians access quality...
Inbound travel data from the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) indicates that the country recorded a 45% growth to reach 247,834 visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2023.
The data indicates a significant rebound from a sector that was badly hit by the COVID-19 pandemic . In the same period...
The Executive Director for Retail and Digital Banking at Access Bank (Ghana) Plc, Pearl Nkrumah, has called on financial institutions in the country to extensively support the advancement and development of Ghana’s tourism and creative industries.
Speaking at the just ended Tourism Investment summit held in Accra, Ms. Nkrumah noted...