Kente Dance ? tourism generating idea

The upcoming Kente Dance/Launch of Agoo Magazine in Toronto is lending a helping hand to Ghana?s ambition to make Ghana an enviable tourist destination. The Toronto?s Kente Dance will showcase Ghana?s unique historical and cultural heritage.

Ghana's Tourism industry is at its infancy and yet there are clear indications of its capacity for generating and sustaining foreign exchange income, creating employment, stimulating rural development and promoting social cohesion within the country.

Specifically Government has identified tourism as a priority area in the overall developmental program of the economy and one of the areas for diversifying and expanding the base for foreign exchange earnings. There are positive indications derive from government policy orientation towards the tourism industry in recent years.

As the government works to develop infrastructures and programs to build an enviable tourism industry it is our duty as citizens of Ghana to help the government in its efforts. We are all to help create right mental image of Ghana as tourism plays an important role in national development. What happened to Ghana?s flourishing tourism of the 1960s and 1970s when Ghana saw increasingly influx of tourist and vacationers from the US and Europe. The Toronto Kente Dance is one such a promotional tool that will help to revive Ghana?s tourism industry. It is encouraging that this tourism promotional concept/technique is being praised by some respectable tourism industry experts as a viable tool to showcase Ghana as a tourist destination. We all owe a big applause to the organizers: Messers Osei Ntansah and Henry Adarkwah All indications are that the Toronto?s Kente Dance will be a day of Hollywood?s Oscar Awards Night caliber, a gathering of socialites dressed in their flamboyant Kente cloths and dresses. Guests will be welcomed under a raised tent and they will be escorted to their assigned seats on red a carpet. The Night will give guests a rare opportunity to renew old acquaintances, to make new friends and to encounter other people we do not know. The overwhelmingly guaranteed attendance attest to the already success of this upcoming event. The program of the event is filled with eye pleasing, entertaining, exciting and fabulous cultural shows that are better seen than described. Pat Thomas, the Golden Voice of Africa, will treat the guests with some of his popular songs on the night.

The Plant Africa Network, an NGO, will be there to film and bring the event to the world on CBC and BBC television networks. Also Agoo executives and photo crew will be on hand to take pictures of the occasion to be featured in the next Agoo Magazine. An exclusive magazine and DVD of the event will be produced. It is going to be a grandeur event.