{"id":345107,"date":"2017-08-15T17:21:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345107"},"modified":"2017-08-15T17:21:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T17:21:59","slug":"tourism-authority-calls-for-setting-up-of-tourism-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=345107","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Authority calls for setting up of tourism committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14620\">\u00a0<span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14625\" lang=\"EN-US\">The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Akwesi Agyeman has called for the formation of a ministerial tourism committee, to enhance visa acquisition for tourists entering the country. \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14627\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14627\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14628\" lang=\"EN-US\">Mr. Agyemang said this at the inauguration of a local organizing committee for an upcoming international workshop for surveyors worldwide in Ghana.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14630\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14630\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14631\" lang=\"EN-US\">He believes strongly that the formation of such a committee will enhance service delivery at inbound countries and also ease visa acquisition for tourists coming to Ghana.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14633\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14633\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_16332\">\u201cOne of the things that we have proposed, which through our Ministry would be sent to the Cabinet, is the formation of a broad-based inter-ministerial tourism committee, because tourism is one sector that has so many dependencies on other sectors,&#8221; he stated.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14636\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14636\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14637\" lang=\"EN-US\">He added that \u201cpeople come into Ghana wanting visas and sometimes if you go to the embassy in Germany, Poland and other places, it might take you more than a month to get a visa to come to Ghana and so we need to find ways to enhance service delivery at the inbound countries.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14639\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14639\"><b id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14640\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14641\" lang=\"EN-US\">Extend visa on arrival policy<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14643\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14643\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14644\">In May this year, some hoteliers impressed on West African authorities to work to extend the visa on arrival policy to foreign tourists in a bid to boost the sector\u2019s growth.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14646\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14646\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14647\">They argued that the move should also ease the barriers restraining some tourists into the continent.<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14649\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14649\">The comment came on the back of the launch of the Hospitality Africa Report which cited Eastern and Southern Africa as attractive destinations for tourists in Africa.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14652\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14652\"><span id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14653\">\u201cAs it stands right now, most Europeans and American tourists need visas before visiting Ghana for instance but they wouldn\u2019t need visas to visit East or Southern Africa. As a result these regions are still attracting huge chunks of visitors from the Americas and Europe,\u201d Sales and Marketing Manager at Accra City Hotel, Yaw Mamphey told\u00a0<b id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14654\">Citi Business News<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14656\"><b><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>By: Rita Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/div>\n<div id=\"yiv2265422699yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502799864238_14656\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority, Akwesi Agyeman has called for the formation of a ministerial tourism committee, to enhance visa acquisition for tourists entering the country. \u00a0 \u00a0 Mr. Agyemang said this at the inauguration of a local organizing committee for an upcoming international workshop for surveyors worldwide in Ghana. \u00a0 [&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":[5],"tags":[3,10217],"class_list":["post-345107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-news","tag-tourism-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345107","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=345107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}