Fifth National Tourism Awards 2002

The 2002 Ghana Tourist Board Regional and National Tourism Awards will begin in the Ashanti Region on 20th July 2002 and end with the National Awards Night in Accra on Saturday 5th October 2002 to coincide with World Tourism Day.

This year's winners in both the competitive and honorary categories in both the regional as well as the national awards ceremonies will receive extra handsome packages in addition to their regular prizes.

According to a release issued by Dateline Marketing Limited, the Marketing Consultants of the Awards, this year's attractive packages is meant to encourage more competition among the stakeholders as well as increase the quality of the output in the tourism industry to attract more tourists into the country.

The Awards the biggest event of the year, will seek to honour corporate bodies, tourism stakeholders, individuals, community, district and regional initiatives, as well as non-governmental organizations whose activities and projects have impacted positively on the tourism industry.

The Winners in the regions will ten compete in the National Awards which will be organized to coincide with the World Tourism Day Celebration in October 2002.

The release gave the dates for the regional awards as follows:

Ahsanti - 20th July

Eastern - 27th July

Brong Ahafo - 3rd August

Central - 10th August

Greater Accra - 17th August

Western - 24th August

Volta - 31st August

Northern - 3rd august

Upper East - 17th August

Upper West - 7th September

NATIONAL AWARDS NIGHT - OCTOBER 5TH, 2002

The competitive areas are as follows:

* New comer of the Year

* House Keepers of the Year

* Host of the Year

* Guest House of the Year

* Tourism Marketing Company of the Year

* Hotel of the Year

* Visitor Attraction of the Year

* Travel/Tour Agency of the Year

* Car Rental Agency of the Year

* Tour Guide of the Year

* Restaurant of the Year

* Fast Food Joint of the Year

* Nite Club of the Year

* Traditional Caterer (Chop Bar) of the Year Drinking Bar of the Year

* Cleanest Town/Village of the Year

* Airline of the Year

The Honorary awards are the following:

* Exemplary Region in Tourism Promotion

* District Initiative in Tourism Promotion

* Community Initiative in Tourism Promotion

* Individual Initiative for Tourism Promotion

* Exemplary Traditional Authority support for Tourism Development

* Donor Agency Support for Tourism Promotion

* Exemplary Marketing for Ghana through Sports

* NGO support for Tourism Development

* Dedicated support for Human Resource Development in Tourism

* Consistent Tourism Writer

* Tourism Oriented Media

* Tourism Promotion through Marketing of Traditional Festival

* Integrated Tourism Services Provider

* Exemplary Entrepreneurship in Tourism Facility Development

* Music personality Award for Tourism

The release also indicated that the other objective of this year's awards ceremonies is to harmonies coordination between the regions and the national so as to enhance the quality and effectiveness of the programme. It appealed to the general public, stakeholders in the tourism industry and sponsors to participate fully to assist Ghana Tourist Board realise its objectives.