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Authorities will from subsequent yr commit over GH¢400 million to offer new vacationer attraction websites whereas renovating present ones, the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, disclosed in Accra yesterday.
These vacationer sights, he stated, would come with constructing museums and rehabilitating attraction websites such because the Shai Hills, Mole Nationwide Park, Cape Coast, and Elmina castles.
The minister disclosed this on the maiden Ghana Tourism Funding Summit organised by the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Tradition.
The summit with assist of the Ghana Tourism Improvement Challenge (GTDP) in collaboration with the Ghana Tourism Improvement Firm (GTDC) and different companies, aimed to showcase Ghana’s wealthy and various tourism funding alternatives, attracting consideration to the nation, and positioning it as a horny vacation spot for International Direct Investments (FDI) in tourism.
It additionally seeks to foster world integration of Ghana’s tourism commerce and safe investments in varied precedence and rising tourism sectors for mutual advantages.
The summit introduced collectively key stakeholders within the tourism worth chain in addition to the Diplomatic Corps, authorized practitioners and growth companions to debate and share concepts on place the nation as a horny hub for world tourism investments.
The minister stated tourism was government-led however private-sector-driven and the inflow of AirBnB was an instance, stating that Ghana in 2019 had recorded a 141 per cent progress in the usage of the platform to seek out lodging.
“In essence, the non-public sector stepped in to make transferring round for a vacation simpler. Since then, home arrivals to vacationer websites have skilled marked progress, with numbers rising from 588,946 in 2021 to 937,087 in 2022,” he added.
Mr Ofori-Atta stated authorities would work with potential buyers to facilitate community-based tourism initiatives, present coaching and capacity-building alternatives for native communities, and foster cultural preservation and heritage conservation.
He expressed optimism that the funding summit would supply a possibility to safe a gradual funding pipeline of personal capital that might feed into the drive to turn out to be Africa’s tourism hub.
He additionally pledged authorities’s steady assist to create an enabling surroundings for the sector and the broader financial system to flourish, saying with collaboration and partnerships we are able to create a extra sustainable and resilient tourism sector.
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The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Tradition, Dr Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, stated tourism was a propeller of financial progress and Ghana might get extra vacationer arrivals and improve its income if it invests in vacationer sights.
He indicated that the quantity dedicated to modernise and supply new vacationer sights would function a job creation avenue and income mobilisation for the nation.
“Our goal subsequent yr is to get two million vacationers arrivals, every vacationer spends a mean of $3,000 which can routinely generate $6m contributing to the nation’s Gross Home Product (GDP),” he added.
Dr Awal known as for collaborative effort amongst tourism gamers to create funding alternatives whereas encouraging each native and international buyers to contribute to the expansion of Ghana’s tourism, arts, and hospitality sector.
The Chairman, GUMA Group, Mr Robert Gumede, assured of his outfit’s assist to spend money on a number of the amenities earmarked to be renovated and modernised to make them related and appeal to extra vacationers into the nation.
“That’s what will make a change. We will develop a mini suncity right here in Ghana. That is our dedication. We need to maintain arms with you, hit the bottom operating and make investments our hard-earned monies in a few of your amenities,” he added.
Nonetheless, he bemoaned the poor customer support within the nation and known as for efficient hospitality coaching for trade gamers within the tourism worth chain to construct their capability to enhance the nation’s tourism sector.
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