Minister Nominee for Tourism Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku intends devising several initiatives to boost domestic tourism in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all in agreement that domestic tourism is not an area of focus for the nation so I have come up with a domestic tourism initiative that we intend to start at the Ministry once given the nod \u2026\u201d said the Minister Nominee when she appeared before Parliament\u2019s Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n
She said the Ministry will enforce this initiative by ensuring staff of the Tourism Ministry visit various tourist sites and report what they have observed and experienced.<\/p>\n
This , she believes, will also influence the Ministry\u2019s programmes and policies aimed at rejuvenating domestic tourism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will come back with some of these ideas from outside the country where the staff of the Ministry and its agencies and departments will be encouraged to save\u2026They will visit the tourist sites and report back to the Ministry. They \u00a0will also be able to report back on the statures and nature of some of these tourist sites. And thirdly, they will have the opportunity to rejuvenate and bring up to speed. \u201c<\/p>\n
Ghana has a number of tourist sites but just a few are consistently patronized by Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
About Catherine Afeku<\/strong><\/p>\n Catherine Afeku is 49 years old, and our Member of Parliament for Evalue-Gwira-Ajomoro \u2013 her 2nd term in parliament. She hails from Axim, and holds Bachelor of Science and Master\u2019s Degrees in Business Administration.<\/p>\n She has worked with the World Bank, with Stico Petroleum in Kenya as a Business Development Consultant, and a bilingual instructor at the Inlingua School of languages, Brescia, Italy.<\/p>\n Between 2006 and 2008, she was the NPP government spokesperson on infrastructure. She is married with 3 children.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minister Nominee for Tourism Culture and Creative Arts, Catherine Afeku intends devising several initiatives to boost domestic tourism in the country. \u201cWe are all in agreement that domestic tourism is not an area of focus for the nation so I have come up with a domestic tourism initiative that we intend to start at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":291611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[364,3,1763],"yoast_head":"\n