Some foreign airlines to the Kilimanjaro International Airport (Kia) have resumed flights after recent suspensions following reduced traffic because of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Discussions are underway to have three others – Kenyan Airways (KQ), Turkish Airlines and Germany-based Condor – resume flights to Tanzania’s gateway to the northern tourism …
Read More »International tourism to Ghana declines by almost 70 percent – GTA
Figures related to international tourism to Ghana showed a 69 percent decline in 2020, the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) has revealed. The authority explains the shortfall can been attributed to the adverse impact of the Coronavirus pandemic amid travel restrictions and lockdowns. Nelson Jones, the Acting Director of Public Affairs at the …
Read More »Shocker as Ghana Tourism Authority now charges for selfies on Adomi Bridge
It’s said; there is no free lunch anywhere. Henceforth, you may have a good phone with good front camera but you may have to pay between GH¢2.00 and GH¢4.00 to pose for a picture on Kwame Nkrumah’s Adomi Bridge. One of the longest bridge on the Volta Lake in Ghana …
Read More »Gov’t to pump $40 million into tourism -Akufo-Addo
PRESIDENT Nana Akufo-Addo has revealed that the World Bank has approved a $40 million grant to improve Ghana’s tourism and creative arts sector. The President made this disclosure in his State of the Nation address on the floor of Parliament on Thursday, February 21, 2019. Delivering his third SoNA since …
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