GTA To Intensify The Promotion Of Tourist Attractions

The Ghana Tourism Authority in its quest to offer the best tourism experience to its clients would be collaborating with the Metropolitan, Municpal, District assemblies and the indigenes to intensify the promotion of Ghana’s tourist attractions, Acting deputy executive director, Finance and Administration of the Authority Mr. Samson Donkor has said.
Speaking to an Accra-based radio station, UNIQUE FM he said with the new tourism law (Act1817), the Authority would expand its scope of operations to cover wider areas and also generate more funds to help develop the tourism sector.
He stressed that, the 1% levy tourism tax from all tourism plants will go a long way to help GTA embark on initiatives and programs that will make the tourism sector a vibrant one. He said skills development and training will be one of the main issues that the authority will be concentrating on to offer quality service.

Mr. Samson Donkor said, the tourism industry will now be competing with other sectors in the national development drive. In answer to a question, the Acting Deputy Executive Director predicted that by June 2012, the Ghana Tourism Authority will take full shape, a situation which will make the tourism sector the number one foreign exchange earner for Ghana.

He however also warned that, Ghana will not promote and encourage mass tourism but instead promote quality non mass tourism with emphasis on the up market tourists. He conceded that there is infrastructural deficit in the tourist sites and that the Ghana Tourism Authority would ensure that most of the tourist sites have the requisite facilities that would help promote Ghana as the preferred tourism destination in West Africa.

SOURCE:
Ghana Tourism Authority, Public Relations Department
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