Articles from the ‘Tourist Sites’ category
Posted by Contributor on May 6, 2010 at 11:45 am in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
GNA – The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has urged District Assemblies and the Ghana Tourist Board to mount billboards along major roads in the country to direct people to tourist sites along those routes. He explained that such facilities would promote tourism and increase tourist’s visit to those sites. Mr Ofosu-Ampofo wondered why [...]
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Posted by Contributor on April 6, 2010 at 4:35 pm in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
GNA – More than 100 foreign tourists and Ghanaians participated in this year’s four-day fifth annual paragliding festival, which ended on Monday. In all, 14 pilots from South Africa; United States of America (USA); Norway; France; Germany and Benin flew the foreign tourists and some Ghanaians from the take-off point on the Odwenanoma Mountains and [...]
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Posted by Contributor on March 23, 2010 at 10:46 am in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
STORY: FROM MAGDALENE SEY, CAPE COAST A massive rehabilitation project is currently underway at the deplorable colonial European Garrison Cemetery in Cape Coast to add up to the tourism potential in the area. The 19th century cemetery situated at Bakaano near the Cape Coast Town Hall was the burial ground for British colonial garrisons [...]
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Posted by Contributor on March 5, 2010 at 5:08 pm in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
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 visitors toured the [...]
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Posted by Contributor on March 3, 2010 at 2:57 pm in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
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 [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 25, 2010 at 2:05 pm in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
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 [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 22, 2010 at 9:54 am in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
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 place, therefore, to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on February 16, 2010 at 11:28 am in Tourist Sites, Travel & Tourism
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 on February [...]
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