Ambassador Arriola said Ghana’s tourism sector has the potential to attract the numbers. “If you have service quality, standards, transportation, roads, airport, clean beaches and your castles; and I don’t think many countries has the kind of Forts and Castles you have and that alone can bring in all the Tourists”. Mexico is seeking to explore and accelerate economic opportunities in Africa for the mutual benefit of Latin America and Africa.
Mexico has consequently begun a process increase its presence on the continent with the opening of new missions in various African countries. A retired Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Biology, University of Ghana, Legon, Professor Alfred Apau Oteng-Yeboah, has expressed concern about the fact Atewa, a globally significant biodiversity area with multiple benefits and great potential for ecotourism, is one of the natural forests planned to be exploited in exchange for the US$2.0 billion Chinese money acquired for infrastructural development across the country.
The Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has announced that key tourist sites in the country will receive a face lift within the short to medium term this year.
The announcement comes at a time the CNN has ranked Ghana forth out of nineteen countries as top destinations in the world to visit this year. The campaign was launched by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo at America's National Press Club in Washington, DC, in September 2018. About half a million Africans in the Diaspora are expected to arrive in the country to take part in “The Year of Return Ghana 2019”, a historic campaign to mark the end of 400 years of the slave trade in Ghana.
According to the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), out of the number, 350,000 participants would come from North America, while the rest would come from the Caribbean, South America and Europe.
One on One with Hon Alban Kingsford Sumana Baghin. Flagbearer Aspirant, National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Hot News Friday January 18, 2019.
Ghana is a tropical country lying just north of the equator. The rainy season lasts from April to October in northern Ghana and from April to June and again from September to October in the south.
Source: Daily Graphic Ghana - The John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library, a memorial and research facility in Cape Coast, has been closed down for lack of funds to run it. Currently, the University of Cape Coast (UCC), which is responsible for the administration of the library, has not been able to pay the water and electricity bills of the facility.
In 2015 tourism and travel directly contributed a total of around GHC4.5 million (more than US $1 million) to Ghana’s GDP. This amounts to about 3.3% of national GDP. Ghana’s meandering coast is dotted with numerous forts and castles. These monuments were built between the 15th and 17th centuries by early modern European chartered companies.
Source: myjoyonline. com - The Ghana Immigration Service says the current visa sticker issued to travellers who wish to visit the country, is archaic.
According to Public Affairs Director for the Immigration Service, Chief Superintendent Francis Palmdeti, the Ghana visa sticker lacks certain security features making it quite easy to fake. It also means that information on the visa cannot be read when placed under ultraviolet light. |
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