Ghana Tourist Board to hold flower festival

The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) is to hold a National Flower Festival in the Eastern Region.

The two-day festival to be organized in Koforidua and some other venues yet to be named would encourage people to converge at the venues to exchange flowers with their loved ones while others renewing their wedding vows and to spend quality time as lovers. Read more

Entrepreneur – Tourism can do better than $1.5 billion annually if…

The Culinary Industry has immense potential to prop up Ghana’s Tourism and help the sector raise its annual receipts beyond the present $1.5 billion.

It is also positioned to help address the nation’s unemployment position by equipping the youth with skills they can live by and earn decent incomes, according to Mrs. Efua Goode-Arthur, Director of the EKGS Culinary Institute in Accra, who called on the government to support players in the industry. Read more

Akuoko Sarpong: I don’t know ‘porn lady’

Nana Akuoko Sarpong, paramount chief of the Agogo traditional area in Ashanti has bemoaned the withering fortunes of the chieftaincy institution and says traditional customs have ceded so much space to foreign lifestyles to its own detriment. Read more

Minister assures UE tomato framers of market

The Minister of Trade and Industries, Ms Hannah Tetteh, has assured farmers in the Upper East Region of ready market for tomato to prevent glut of the produce during this year’s harvesting period. Read more

Ensure customer satisfaction, minister tells food providers

Mrs.Juliana Azumah Mensah, Minister of Tourism, on Saturday urged cooks and food providers to be innovative and undertake research into customer expectation in order to come out with interesting and tasty menus. Read more

International travel writers laud Ghana’s tourist sites

International Travel Writers on tour of parts of the country on Thursday lauded Ghana as the true gateway to Africa, citing the rich history, varied cultures, hospitality of the people and the tourism sites in the country.

The travel writers, numbering 12, drawn from the UK, USA, Canada, Denmark, The Netherlands, Germany, Russia, Spain and Italy, together with local journalists and officials of the Ministry of Tourism and some tourism students, are currently touring parts of the country, as part of the on-going UN World Tourism Day. Read more

Tourism practitioners discuss sex tourism

Participants at an International Tourism conference on Friday condemned tourists who exploit children sexually, pointing out that the act had legal implications.

Mr Abdul Razak Yakubu, Programmes Coordinator of Enslavement Prevention Alliance, West Africa (EPAWA) a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that advocates against sex tourism, stressed that in every country sexual exploitation of children by adults was against the law. Read more

Huge tourist arrivals overwhelms Kakum staff

Even though tourist arrivals at Kakum Park in the Central Region reached 136,000 in 2008, only 12 tour guides are at post at the national tourist site, an official of the park said on Wednesday.

“We have 74 staff members out of which only 12 of us are tour guides. the rest are security persons, front desk staff and other peripheral staff,” Ms Kate Effi Donkoh, a senior tour guide told a group of international travel writers and local journalists on a visit to the park. Read more

Tourists pour into Kpetoe for Agbamevorza

Kpetoe(V/R), Sept. 06, GNA-Hundreds of local and foreign tourists on Saturday tasted the cultural and artistic elegance of the chiefs and people of Agotime Traditional Area at a grand durbar to climax this year’s Agbamevorza (Kente Festival) of the Area.

Donned in various distinct Kente designs and prints, the people; old and young, including chiefs performed artistic and warrior dances all day to showcase their rich culture as hordes of people scrambled to capture the spectacle on their digital and mobile phone cameras. Read more

Ghana to host this year’s UN World Tourism Day

Ghana will host this year’s UN World Tourism Organization Day which starts from the 21st-27th September. The day is celebrated annually to create awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its social, cultural and economic values. At the 17th Session of the Organization’s General Assembly in 2007, Ghana was elected for the first time to the Executive Council and also offered the position of the 2nd Vice Chairman of the Executive Council. Read more

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