The Minister-designate for Tourism, Tradition and Inventive Arts, Dzifa Abla Gomashie, has acknowledged her dedication to allow Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to make investments of their respective areas with regard to the nation’s tourism sector.
An administrative coverage, as she instructed, could be established to supply them with expert personnel who may help in devising methods to boost and capitalise on all sides of tourism inside their respective communities.
The nominee indicated that she would collaborate with the Minister of Roads and Excessivemethods to reshape deplorable roads resulting in the vacationer websites to make them extra attractive to guests.
“There’s the necessity to make investments and focus extra on these tourists websites with a purpose to get the required sources to develop the sector as finished in different international locations in the direction of producing the wanted international alternate for the nation,” she stated.
Ms Gomashie who additionally expressed concern over the excessive price of lodge accommodation in Ghana and the inadequate infrastructure to help the nation’s rising tourism calls for assured of assembly main stakeholders to deal with the difficulty.
The nominee stated it was irritating to see motels charging increased charges as compared to their worldwide counterparts, a scenario she described as detrimental to the nation’s competitiveness as a vacationer vacation spot.
Ms Gomashie highlighted the pressing want to enhance infrastructure to fulfill international tourism requirements, acknowledging that the dearth of advertequate amenities impacts the nation’s potential to generate income.
She known as for collaborative efforts to deal with the difficulty, encouraging each native and worldwide personal sector stakeholders to spend money on the nation’s infrastructure.
“Aside from participating with the Minister of Finance, I feel all people and anybody listening and keen to engage with the personal sector inside or exterior the nation is invited to get on-board to make sure that we enhance on our infrastructure capacities, you’re welcome to have interaction me after the vetting,” she stated.
The Minister-designate expressed a dedication to involving expert people, notably from the Centre for Nationwide Tradition, with a purpose to fulfill the federal government’s aspirations and imaginative and prescient for advancing the nation’s tourism, arts, and cultural initiatives.
BY LAWRENCE
VOMAFA-AKPALU
