Gov’t to renovate all tourist sites in the country
President Nana Akufo-Addo says his government is undertaking a comprehensive renovation and modernization of all tourist sites in the country.
The initiative by government is expected to position the country as the preferred tourism destination in West Africa.
The renovation and modernization of tourist sites according to the President will affect the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles, and the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park.
The President disclosed this initiative in Parliament while delivering the State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Wednesday, March 30, 2022.
His comments comes on the back of the success of the Year of Return event in 2019, which saw lots of tourists visit the country.
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‘’Mr. Speaker, I recall, with nostalgia, the end of year 2019, just before the onset of COVID, when the world came to Ghana in that “December to Remember”, and we were the happy place to be at the end of our Year of Return. Ghana continues to lead the push for African renaissance through the decade-long ‘Beyond the Return Project’.
‘’The “December in GH” component of this project has positioned Ghana as the destination to visit every December. Last year, the country recorded some six hundred and twenty-three thousand, five hundred and twenty-three (623,523) visitors, up from the three hundred and fifty-five thousand, one hundred and eight (355,108) visitors, the year before, signifying a marked rebound of our tourism sector’’.
‘’We should recapture those glorious moments and build on them as we work hard to reclaim what we lost to the COVID years’’.
‘’Government is, therefore, undertaking a comprehensive renovation and modernization of tourist attractions across the country, such as the Cape Coast and Elmina Castles, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, which will enable us position Ghana as the preferred tourism destination in West Africa,’’ said the President.
