The paper is excited that tourism is flourishing in the northern region. According to figures garnered from the Ghana Tourist Board (GTB), the region bagged GH¢142,218 from the arrival of 17,620 tourists to the region in 2001 as against GH¢9,401 from 7,295 visitors recorded in 2002. In 2008, the region recorded GH¢62,385 from the arrival [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Jovan Matic A little over two years ago Ljuba Simic packed in his job driving trucks for a local cement factory for a new life – as a pioneer of rural tourism in Serbia’s lush Fruska Gora region. “I told myself it would be good to profit from what we have: the Danube [...]
Read the rest of this story »credit:citifmonline The Deputy Manager of the Mole National Park in the West Gonja District of the Northern region, Enoch Ashie, has denied reports that park guards have been shooting indiscriminately at farmers whose lands are constantly being destroyed by animals from the reserve. He however admitted that animals from the reserve have been destroying farmlands [...]
Read the rest of this story »Land Tours is proud to host the Semester at Sea participants in Ghana for the third time. On the Semester at Sea ship is a special guest lecturer, Nobel Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has joined the ship for the entire semester. This Wednesday, the 22nd of September, the Semester At Sea ship will berth [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Martin Parry Among the tourist attractions in South Africa on World Cup football fans ‘must-do’ lists, one of the most notorious penal colonies of the last century is right up there. Robben Island is best known for being home to political prisoners jailed by the old apartheid government, most famously former leader Nelson [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Joshua Howat Berger As the Lesotho Stars and Naughty Boys FC warm up for their match in a dirt lot on the outskirts of Lesotho’s capital Maseru, the players bounce to the beats streaming from a cell phone on the sideline. Some footballers wear just one shoe, some wear none at all, and [...]
Read the rest of this story »Article By: Godfrey Marawanyika Two years ago vervet monkeys were the main visitors crawling through Zimbabwe’s royal ruins, but now tourists are returning in numbers in another sign of the nation’s fledgling recovery. Cars drawing trailers and motorbikes bearing foreign number plates queue up at the gates to Great Zimbabwe, the ancient site where Shona [...]
Read the rest of this story »By Frank Eltman, Associated Press Writer Coopers Beach, with pristine white sand gently sloping toward a shoreline of lapping waves, convenient parking and amenities and nary a gum wrapper in sight, has been selected as America’s best beach in an annual survey released Friday to coincide with the start of the summer vacation season. “New [...]
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