Articles from the ‘Other Stories’ category
Posted by Contributor on August 28, 2009 at 11:24 am in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
GNA – The Ghana Tourism Federation (GHATOF), on Thursday called for a change in the waste disposal habits of Ghanaians and said it was hampering the growth of the tourism industry. Mrs Stella Appenteng, President of GHATOF said environmental sanitation was becoming problematic particularly in cities along the beach and called on the public health [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 19, 2009 at 10:17 am in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
GNA – The Brong–Ahafo Regional branch of the Ghana Tourist Board is to embark on a law enforcement exercise that will cover hospitality establishments operating illegally. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Sunyani on Tuesday, Mr. Francis Tapena, the Regional Manager of the Board, said the exercise would include [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 18, 2009 at 2:24 pm in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
GNA – The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Bawku West, Mr Anaba Adam Imoro, has said Bawku West District had a lot of tourism potentials that could be developed to serve as additional revenue source for the district. Speaking to the Ghana News Agency after touring some communities in the district, he said [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 5, 2009 at 1:01 pm in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
By: Chris Twum The Managing Director of Holy Trinity Hospital in Accra, and SPA in Sogakofe in the Volta region, Dr. Felix Anyaa has called on the government to consider health tourism as one of the emerging tourism products on the global market, especially in the developing world. He said though marketing of traditional [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 1, 2009 at 11:38 am in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
Truly one of the best beers in the world, this brew is an Ashanti beer brewed in Kumasi and is an essential part of the Ghana experience. National Museum – This museum located in Accra, the county’s capital, is filled with the country’s history and traditional art coming from the Stone Age to the present [...]
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Posted by Contributor on July 10, 2009 at 1:58 pm in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
Article By: Penny-pinching, rude and terrible at foreign languages: French people are the world’s worst tourists according to a study of the global hotel industry released on Thursday. Carried out last month by TNS Infratest, the study asked 40 000 hotels worldwide to rank tourists from 27 countries based on nine criteria, from their [...]
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Posted by Contributor on July 8, 2009 at 11:21 am in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
By Scott Stearns/VOA Accra Ghana is hoping that this week’s visit by U.S. President Barack Obama brings with it an increase in tourism revenue, especially from black Americans. At Accra’s main tourist market, Ama Serwaa sells mugs and key rings in Ghana’s red, yellow, and green colors. She has jewelry made from shells and rolls [...]
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Posted by GNA on at 11:09 am in Other Stories, Travel & Tourism
The tourism sector attracts low Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) investments though it recorded earnings of more than three billion dollars within 2001 to 2006. Mr. Robert Darko Osei, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research said on Tuesday that only 2.4 per cent of the investment went to the tourism [...]
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