{"id":144069,"date":"2015-08-17T15:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T15:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=144069"},"modified":"2015-08-17T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:58:09","slug":"mahama-charges-tourism-sector-to-project-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=144069","title":{"rendered":"Mahama charges tourism sector to project Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Mahama has challenged\u00a0stakeholders in the tourism industry to project the African values to help change the continent&#8217;s\u00a0negative image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The president was speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Tourism Organization, UNWTO, summit\u00a0in Accra, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144075 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-10.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (10)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-10.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-10-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It aims at discussing the image of Africa and also providing workable roadmap to enhancing the Brand Africa project.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the gathering, President Mahama urged particpants to use innovative ways to change Africa\u2019s narrative.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144073 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-7.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (7)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-7-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He indicated, \u201cfor many years the narrative of Africa has been negative. This has been promoted in the mindset of many that the continent was a backward under developed disease ridden jungle where\u00a0 if people were\u00a0 not starving then they were busy killing each other\u00a0 in tribal wars.\u00a0Africa has great potential, and Africa has a lot going for it, nature, culture, animals, great food and friendly people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144072 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-3.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (3)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144076 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-11.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (11)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-11-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama added that \u201cour professional brand expert must explore as many innovative ways to sell Africa to the world. We must all work hard to change the negative perception that has been built over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144077 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-12.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (12)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-12.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-12-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-144070 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-1.jpg\" alt=\"world trade tourism held in ghana (1)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/world-trade-tourism-held-in-ghana-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline\/com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama has challenged\u00a0stakeholders in the tourism industry to project the African values to help change the continent&#8217;s\u00a0negative image. The president was speaking at the opening ceremony of the World Tourism Organization, UNWTO, summit\u00a0in Accra, on Monday. It aims at discussing the image of Africa and also providing workable roadmap to enhancing the Brand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":144074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-144069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}