{"id":291636,"date":"2017-02-06T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291636"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T12:49:26","slug":"tourism-minister-nominee-endorses-citi-fms-heritage-caravan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291636","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Minister-nominee endorses Citi FM\u2019s Heritage Caravan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tourism, Arts and Culture minister nominee, Catherine Afeku, has endorsed Citi FM\u2019s Heritage Caravan.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister Nominee endorsed the initiative while responding to a question on measures her Ministry will take to revive domestic tourism, during her vetting on Monday at Parliament House.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Afeku said though Citi FM initiated the programme as a means of promoting domestic tourism, her Ministry will also introduce other programmes to support the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo give credit to Citi FM &#8230;.they do the Heritage Caravan annually and I have seen the advertising; but yes, once given the nod the Ministry intends to aggressively promote domestic tourism and it will be one of the initiatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-291334 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Heritage-Caravan-Ad-2.jpg\" alt=\"Heritage Caravan Ad\" width=\"378\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About Heritage Caravan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heritage Caravan is a tour that grants participants the opportunity to discover and experience Ghana, the people, places and culture in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the participants visited some very interesting sites, including Nzulezu, Buabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary and Manhyia.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_200678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-200678\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-200678\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160307-WA0025-1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"From Adaklu, the #HeritageCaravan went to the Eastern Region, before heading for #Kumasi.\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-200678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Adaklu, the #HeritageCaravan went to the Eastern Region, before heading for #Kumasi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition will be from March 5 to 12. Participants will be touring seven regions in that week.<\/p>\n<p>It is very special this year because the Ghana is celebrating 60 years of independence and this will be a perfect opportunity to learn more about the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_198614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198614\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-198614\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Nzulezu-4-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The participants at Nzulezu, the town on stilt\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The participants at Nzulezu, the town on stilt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Citi FM&#8217;s Heritage Caravan is sponsored byfrom Top Oil, Colgate and HFC Susu Plus.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ojsarpong\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ojsarpong<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tourism, Arts and Culture minister nominee, Catherine Afeku, has endorsed Citi FM\u2019s Heritage Caravan. The Minister Nominee endorsed the initiative while responding to a question on measures her Ministry will take to revive domestic tourism, during her vetting on Monday at Parliament House. Catherine Afeku said though Citi FM initiated the programme as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[137,11],"tags":[364,3779],"class_list":["post-291636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz","category-top-stories","tag-catherine-afeku","tag-heritage-caravan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291636","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}