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Ghana lacks hotel rooms –Tourism
Expert
Ho, July 7, Ghanadot/GNA - Ghana currently needs about 20,
OOO hotel rooms to be able to host the number of tourists
expected in the country at a given period, Mr. Frank Kofigah,
Head of Planning and Development at the Ghana Tourists Board
said on Friday.
He said, currently, there are only 7,000 hotel rooms in the
country and these include hotels in remote villages.
Mr. Kofigah made the observation at the beginning of a
three-day working tour to eco-tourism sites in the Volta
Region.
He said in Ghana the hotel with the highest number of rooms
had about 200 rooms while in other countries a hotel could
have about 50,000 rooms.
"If we have even a thousand visitors at one point in time we
will have to beg to use private accommodation."
The tour organized by the Ghana Tourists Board for members
of the Parliamentary Select Committee of Trade and Tourism
will take the Members of Parliament to
selected tourist sites in the Volta Region.
The itinerary for the tour includes a visit to Tafi Atome
Monkey Sanctuary, Liate-Wote Eco Tourism sites, Wli
Waterfalls, Kpando Tokor grotto and Kpetoe Kente village,
Other places to be visited are Keta, Atokor Slave market,
Vume pottery and Cisneros ostrich farm.
The Members, on the first day of the trip stopped over at
Shai Hill to visit the caves and describbed the scenes as
interesting and exciting.
Mrs. Alice Boon, Member of Parliament for Lambussie and
Deputy ranking member of the group expressed gratitude to
the Ghana Tourists Board for such a trip.
She pledged the committee’s continual support for tourism
development in the country.
GNA
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