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Cape Coast — Ghana dangers shedding out on its seaside tourism potential, if pressing steps weren’t taken to halt the indiscriminate ranges of sand-winning alongside its whole shoreline, a Professor of Tourism and Hospitality Administration on the College of Cape Coast (UCC), Prof. Ishmael Mensah, has warned.
He stated coastal tourism had turn into the main target of the worldwide tourism business, making it the quickest rising business within the sector and Ghana couldn’t afford to lose out on this, stressing that sand profitable had turn into endemic, stretching from Keta via Ada, La, Kokrobite to Brenu and Busua all experiencing such actions.
“We’re shedding our paradise, what makes a seaside enticing is the character of the seaside when it comes to the white sand, however we’re destroying our lovely shoreline via sand profitable, haphazard settlements and different human actions,” he emphasised.
Prof. Mensah who made the decision at his inaugural lecture held at UCC final Wednesday stated the extent of sand-winning on the seashores was alarming and required the adoption of drastic measures to halt the observe.
Talking on the subject: “Evolution of coastal tourism in Ghana: Paradise discovered, paradise misplaced or paradise regained?”, he stated there was the necessity for the institution of a Seaside Improvement Authority to see to the coordinated growth of the nation’s seaside entrance, and in addition cease sand-winning to safeguard it for tourism functions.
Prof. Mensah defined that, laws alone was not sufficient to handle the problem on the numerous seashores throughout the nation.
The Seaside Obstruction Ordinance which was amended in 1951, he defined, couldn’t meet the demand of latest challenges.
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He, subsequently, known as for efficient implementation, enforcement of legal guidelines and public consciousness creation amongst residents in coastal communities.
The federal government, Prof. Mensah indicated, ought to take decisive measures in stopping additional erosion of the nation’s seashores.
“Shoreline protectionism is crucial. I need to commend authorities for constructing sea defence partitions, however we must also earmark a part of our seashores for seaside nourishment programme,” he indicated.
He defined that, seaside nourishment programme entails the dumping of sand on sure parts of the seaside to widen the shoreline in order that tourism actions might happen at these locations.
“There are a selection of such locations like Ada, Keta, La, Kokrobite, Brenu and Busua that are thronged by home and worldwide vacationers alike for tourism and leisure actions,” he stated.
He stated, “nonetheless, the sustainability of coastal tourism is threatened by numerous human actions that exert hostile impacts on the fragile coastal ecosystem”.
He defined that, a higher a part of the seashores have been polluted and degraded as such there was the necessity for the adoption of measures to make sure correct administration of the ecological system on the seaside.
Moreover, he tasked resorts and amenities alongside the coast to make sure correct environmental administration with a view to safeguard the seashores.
On the standard of amenities working on the seashores, Prof. Mensah acknowledged that, about 80 per cent of sprawling amenities alongside the seashores don’t have licences to function.
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