Ghana to get 1.5 billion dollars in tourism in 2010

Ghana would receive 1,062,000 tourists in the year 2010, a projection expected to rake in more than 1.5 billion dollars, a tourism statistical fact sheet stated in Accra on Monday.

The figure is nearly three times projections for year 2000, estimated at 399,000 arrivals and expected to accrue 386 million dollars. Figures for this year are not available. It is however expected that the figures will outnumber provisional estimates for last year because of international events such as the Fifth African-African American Summit, PANAFEST '99, World Tourism Organisation Conference and the Africa Under-17 football championships.