Parliamentary select committee visits hotel

Accra (Greater Accra) 11 June '99

Members of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Tourism on Thursday visited the La Palm Beach Hotel to acquaint themselves with development and progress of work at the hotel scheduled to be opened in August this year.

The committee led by its Chairman, Mr John Kofi Gyasi, member for Adansi Asokwa and accompanied by Mrs. Doris Owusu Fianko, Executive Director of the Ghana Tourist Board, inspected the facilities.

Mr Gyasi said the committee was impressed considering the short time it took to put up the facility to host presidents, who attended the African-African American Summit.

He expressed the hope that the hotel would make a great impact on the hospitality and tourism industry since standards are first class.

He called on the staff to maintain the standard to justify its five star deluxe status.

Mr Sansone Panin, Managing Director of the hotel said the management of the hotel is committed to the protection of the environment, and would help improve sanitation in the La area.

The hotel currently operates a restaurant and Ten chalets, each having a suite and eight rooms and a swimming pool.

The first phase would be commissioned in August.

When completed it would have 300 bedrooms, a shopping mall, three restaurants including a typical African restaurant and a number of amenities.

The hotel is scheduled for completion by the end of 1999.