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General News of Sunday, March 24, 2019
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2019-03-24
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
The President, Nana Addo Akufo-Addo Dankwa, has commissioned the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Arts, as well as the Ghana Tourism Authority, to create a lasting legacy that will make Ghana a true heritage pilgrimage destination. for Africans in the diaspora.
"The Tourism Authority has recorded gains and growth on several indices with visitor arrivals, per capita spending, the number of establishments, the number of tourist sites, etc. since we took the reins of government, "he said.
In an address read on his behalf by Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, at the 15th Ghana Tourism Awards, the President said that the tourism sector under his government received the necessary impetus, the ministry to cabinet status.
He however indicated that he was following with interest the various activities carried out in the tourism sector, such as the Year of Return project with the TINA festival, the Black History Month celebrations of the year. African American Association of Ghana and Back to Africa.
He added that the ministry is improving several tourist sites such as Axim Fort St. Antonio, Assin Manso Slave River, Tetteh Quarshie Cocoa Farm, Bunso Aboretrem, Kintampo Falls and Elmina Heritage Bay.
This, he says, is in line with the automated one-stop destination program and marketing programs such as touring Ghana, seeing Ghana, eating Ghana, carrying Ghana and feeling that Ghana are all part of it comprehensive plans to transform the sector.
He reiterated that "the World Bank's $ 40 million tourism development program is also an additional badet in the growth of our tourism sector."
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