The AKWAABA Forum, which is part of the Citi Business Festival has started at the Alisa Hotel in Accra. The forum is aimed at addressing challenges in the tourism and hospitality industry in a panel discussion. The panel is made up of the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Authority(GTA) Mr. Akwesi Agyemang, Managing Director, Jumia … Read more
The AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry will come off this morning at the Alisa Hotel, 9:30am. The forum which is part of the Citi Business Festival will bring together all stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality industry. This will include regulators, policy makers and the private sector … Read more
The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts is set to launch a new project called SEE GHANA, EAT GHANA, WEAR GHANA. Expected to be launched in July, the project is intended to increase the sales and use of Made-in-Ghana goods and services and also identify ways of packaging them for the foreign market. The Chief … Read more
The next outdoor event on the calendar of the Citi Business Festival is the AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry. The forum which will come off on Thursday June 22, will bring together all stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality industry. This will include regulators, policy makers and … Read more
The next outdoor event on the calendar of the Citi Business Festival is the AKWAABA Forum, designed to address challenging issues in the tourism and hospitality industry. The forum which will come off on Thursday June 22, will bring together all stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality industry. This will include regulators, policy makers and … Read more
Multiplicity of taxes is running down many hotels, guest houses and restaurants in the Northern region, the Acting Manager of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Mr Alexander Kwame Nketia has said. Mr Nketia said the hospitality industry which had grown at an impressive rate over the past one and a half decades was currently reeling … Read more
Car Rentals Association of Ghana (CRAG) has appealed to government to grant them some tax exemption to help revamp their businesses. According to the association, they have been sidelined in all the tax cuts announced in the 2017 budget. Speaking to Citi Business News, the National President of the Ghana Tourism Federation and Past President … Read more
Travel and tourism contributed some GH¢4.5 billion to Ghana’s economy in 2015. Mr Seth Yeboah Ocran, President of the Ghana Car Rentals Association on Friday said domestic tourism could develop through the effective collaboration of stakeholders. He said domestic tourism alone contributed immensely to the socio-economic development of the country, and it was important to … Read more
Ghana arguably has a great tourism potential but has poorly been managed over the years to boost the country’s economic fortunes. This is as a result of poor security, inaccessibility to secured transportation and poor maintenance of these tourist sites among others. Despite these challenges the country has been ranked 120th, 12th and 6th in … Read more
The organisers of the Tourism Booster project have paid a courtesy call on the Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Catherine Abelema Afeku to formally brief her on the event which takes place from April 23 to April 29. The Tourism Booster seminars are a three-city programme for tourism managers, owners of hospitality facilities and … Read more
For the past two weeks radio stations, TV stations, friends, colleagues and pals on social media have been calling and mailing me for my opinion on the Marwako issue, given the fact that have been working in commercial kitchens since I was 14 years old and have had the opportunity to rise through the ranks … Read more
For the past two weeks radio stations, TV stations, friends, colleagues and pals on social media have been calling and mailing me for my opinion on the Marwako issue, given the fact that have been working in commercial kitchens since I was 14 years old and have had the opportunity to rise through the ranks … Read more