The forum is a thought leadership platform created to discuss key issues within the real estate and housing sector in Ghana.

The forum is looking at pertinent issues in the sector such as the future of housing in Ghana?, the type of houses needed, which areas they are needed?, key partners required for providing  housing, and financing options available.

The panel at the forum includes Prof. William George Ntsiful from the Ghana Institute of Architects, Bright Owusu-Amofa, CEO of Appolonia, Kingsley Letsa business Development Manager at Nexans and Kojo Addo-Kufour, C.O.O Ghana Home Loans.

The rest are Nana Appiah, Head, State Housing Company, Tony Asare, Architect and Built Industry Professional, Sammy Amegayibor,  Ghana Real Estate Developers Association(GREDA), and Richard Mantho, President Ghana Real Estate Professionals Association.

The main objective of the forum is to drive the national discussion on the real estate and  housing industry in Ghana with a focus on the future of housing, sustainability, affordability, standards and financing.

By: citibusinessnews.com/Ghana

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The Minister of Environment, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng is the Special Guest at this year’s event.

The Innovation Summit is a conversation on how to create value for the business community through innovation.

It features a panel of industry practices, discussing how to generate business successes through innovation.

The theme for the 2017 Innovation Summit is “Creating Our Future”.

The Innovation Summit showcases some innovators in the market place, pitching their solutions to national challenges before policy makers.

The event is in two sessions. The first one,— Innovators  Pitch features a short presentations by innovators/inventors, followed by comments from government officials on prospects for adaptation and scalability.

Session two, comprises a panel of innovators. It is a moderated conversation on specific themes on innovation and business.

This session attempts to explain how to overcome some of the problems that innovations face, like scalability and profitability.

The panel will also interrogate how to incorporate innovation within business models and create innovation-enhancing business models.

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The Innovation Summit is a conversation on how to create value for the business community through innovation. It will feature a panel of industry practices, discussing how to generate business successes through innovation.

The theme for the 2017 edition is “Creating Our Future”.

The Innovation Summit will also showcase some innovators in the market place, pitching their solutions to national challenges before policy makers.

The event will be in two sessions with the first one,— Innovators  Pitch featuring short presentations by innovators/inventors followed by comments from government officials on prospects for adaptation and scalability.

Session two, which will be a panel of innovators, will be a moderated conversation on specific themes on innovation and business.

This session will attempt to explain how to overcome some of the problems that innovations face, like scalability and profitability.

The panel will also interrogate how to incorporate innovation within business models and create innovation-enhancing business models.

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By: citibusinessnews.com/Ghana

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The Innovation Summit is a conversation on how to create value for the business community through innovation.

It will feature a panel of industry practitioners who will be discussing how to generate business successes through innovation.

The theme for the 2017 edition is “Creating Our Future.”

The Innovation Summit will also showcase some innovators in the market, pitching their solutions to national challenges before policy makers.

The event will be in two sessions with the first one,— Innovators Pitch featuring short presentations by innovators/inventors followed by comments from government officials on prospects for adaptation and scalability.

Session two, which will be a panel of innovators, will be a moderated conversation on specific themes on innovation and business.

This session will attempt to explain how to overcome some of the problems that innovations face, like scalability and profitability.

The panel will also interrogate how to incorporate innovation within business models and create innovation-enhancing business models.

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By: citibusinessnews.com/Ghana

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The forum which will come off on Thursday June 22, will bring together all stakeholders in the tourism and hospitality industry.

This will include regulators, policy makers and the private sector to deliberate on the challenges confronting the industry and explore solutions and policies to deal with the issues.

Regulators of the industry will be given the platform to discuss policies formulated or being formulated to deal with challenges and develop the sector moving forward.

The forum will among others, discuss challenges facing the industry, explore ways to deal with the challenges , spell out synergies private sector and government can create to address the challenges and push industry ahead of its competitors as well as explore ways to quicken but realistically fast track the implementation of Ghana’s 15 year tourism development plan.

The forum will also consolidate proposed solutions from regulators and private sector, inform policy direction and present a detailed plan of action moving forward (blueprint).

The key areas the forum will look at include, current state of industry ,policy direction and formulation, investment in the sector , total infrastructure ,workforce and the future of the sector.

Participants include the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts , Ministry of Aviation, Ghana Tourism Authority , Ghana Tourism Development Company , Ghana Airport Company Limited and Ghana Tourism Federation.

The rest are Ghana Hotels Association, Ghana Airlines Association, Tour Union Association of Ghana, Tourism Sites Owners and Jumia Travel.

Background
Despite its enormous potential of overcoming Ghana’s top foreign exchange earners (cocoa, gold & oil) and becoming the most significant driver of growth and development for the country, the tourism industry continuous to face challenges hindering its potential.

Figures from the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), reveal Ghana’s tourism sector directly contributed GHS2.62bn ($727m) to Ghana’s GDP in 2013, or 3% of the total.

Though the figure is slightly above the global average of 2.9%, it is far below regional leaders such as Gambia (9%), Senegal (5.3%) and Kenya (4.3%).
On the other hand total contribution of travel and tourism to Ghana’s economy was GHS6.24bn ($1.73bn) in 2013, or 7.2% of GDP.

This is however significantly below the global average of 9.5% of GDP, and Kenya’s 12.1%, for example.

The need to make its development a priority cannot be avoided as Ghana’s top earner – cocoa, gold and oil continue to suffer significant plunge in revenue due to volatilities on the World market while unemployment, declining economic growth and slump in output of the current top commodity earners still remains a major challenge for government.
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