Paragliding has added to the country\u2019s domestic tourism by enriching the local economy, generating income, reducing poverty and promoting national cohesion.<\/p>\n
It is an aviation sport, which had provided a fresh impetuous for the nation\u2019s domestic tourism delivery, as an integral part of the Kwahu Easter festival.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Mrs Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare said this at the launch of the 9th<\/sup> Okwahu Paragliding Festival on the Odwenanoma Mountain at Atibie, in the Kwahu South District.<\/p>\n She announced that a second paragliding festival would be organized in October this year, to portray the tourism potential in the area, while a paragliding training school would be established in the country to train local pilots.<\/p>\n Mrs Ofosu-Agyare noted that, there were a lot of islands on the Volta Lake in the Afram Plains and advised the Kwahu business community to take advantage to develop them into tourists attractions.<\/p>\n The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Julius Debrah said, the region is leading in domestic tourism destination in the country and needed funding to develop them.<\/p>\n He said as a result, a number of conferences were being shifted from Accra to the region, which has a lot of first class hotels, rest stops and restaurants to enhance the tourism industry.<\/p>\n There were photo and painting exhibition to portray the tourism potential in the Kwahu area.<\/p>\n 15 pilots from mostly United States of America (USA), Peru, Japan, Belgium, France Thailand and Spain have arrived in the country to take part in the paragliding festival.<\/p>\n The pilots as at 12 noon yesterday had flown 12 people, out of 115, who had registered to fly at the cost of GHC 200.00 each.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: GNA<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paragliding has added to the country\u2019s domestic tourism by enriching the local economy, generating income, reducing poverty and promoting national cohesion. It is an aviation sport, which had provided a fresh impetuous for the nation\u2019s domestic tourism delivery, as an integral part of the Kwahu Easter festival. The Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14033,"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":[2],"tags":[6,33],"class_list":["post-14457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-togbe-afede","tag-unemployment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}