GNA – The Cape Coast Castle, one of the internationally acclaimed tourism monuments, in 2009 recorded an increase of 15,704 visitors representing 25.8 percent over the previous year. Mr Nicholas Ivor, Central and Western Regional Director of the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMMB) said on Thursday that a total of 76,546 [...]
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A specialized unit within the Ghana Police Service to provide security and safety for tourists at tourism establishments was on Tuesday launched in Accra. The unit called "Tourism Police," will have police personnel in mufti stationed at centres patronized by tourists, especially beaches, highways, airports, bus stops, public parks and hotel, lodges, entertainment [...]
Read the rest of this story »Achimota Forest will be adjusted to a world class tourism enclave without destroying the ecosystem but attempts to construct a road through it will nose-dive this objective, Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, Acting Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission has said.
Mr Dartey told the Public Accounts Committee when he appeared before it that the two-year programme, [...]
GNA – Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, Eastern Regional Minister, on Saturday called for a broader stakeholder support to the annual paragliding festival in order to make it a major tourism event nationwide.
He urged the Municipal and District Assemblies, chieftaincy institutions and businesses in the Kwahu Traditional Area, where the event usually takes [...]
GNA – The Ghana Tourist Board (GTB) in collaboration with the Cocoa Processing Company and the Produce Buying Companies (PBC) had held a programme for some school children to mark Chocolate Day as part of the Cocoa Trail Project.
Chocolate Day was instituted as an annual affair four years ago to be celebrated [...]
STORY: FROM MICHAEL SARPONG MFUM, TANOBOASE B/A
Tano Sacred Grove in the Techiman Municipality of the Brong Ahafo region is one of the leading tourist sites in the country.
The Grove, a Community Based-Ecotourism Project (CBEP), was started in 1996. With the help of the Ghana Association for the Conservation of Nature (GACON), the Tanoboase community began [...]
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One of the most captivating places to visit in Africa is the ancient Pyramids & Sphinx located just south of Cairo. Over 4,000 years old, the three Al Giza pyramids (Khufu, Khephren, and Khafre) are impressive in size alone. The iconic Great Sphinx, with its human head and lion body, sits majestically before [...]
GNA – The Kumasi Zoological Gardens was last year adjudged the best domestic tourist attraction site in the country, registering more than 130,000 visitors.
This helped the facility to rake in GH¢40,400.
Mr Samuel Darkwa Nimoh, the Manager, told newsmen in Kumasi on Thursday that as of August 2009, revenue had surpassed the last year’s total.
“Contrary to [...]
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