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Food vendors receive training ahead of Ghana 2008
Accra, Jan. 10, Ghanadot/GNA - The Ghana
Tourists Board has started a training programme for food
vendors and chop bar operators ahead of the Ghana 2008
Football tournament to enable them to provide quality and
efficient services to tourists who would visit the country.
The training programme which started on January 7, 2008 is
expected to end on January 17 and would attract about 5000
vendors and chop bar operators, including waakye, koko and
kenkey sellers.
Mr. Ben Ohene-Ayeh, Public Relations Manager at the Ghana
Tourists Board told the GNA that the programme would take
place in eight out of the ten regions, especially those
along the routes leading to the venue of the matches.
Regions to benefit from the training are: Greater Accra,
Volta, Central, Western, Eastern, Ashanti, Brong Ahafo and
Northern regions, Mr Ohene-Ayeh said, adding that,
participants had been grouped into four and would be trained
by Cook Art Company.
Participants would be taken trough topics like food hygiene,
customer care, food production, and facility management
among other topics related to catering.
Mr Ohene-Ayeh pointed out that participants had expressed
high interest in the training programme and expressed the
hope that it would make an impact by ensuring food safety.
"We have had massive representation so far at all the places
where the training had been held," he said and added that
the food sector in the tourism industry was important to the
growth of the industry in the country.
Participants would also receive certificates of
participation and a Ghana Tourists Board apron.
The Ghana Tourists Board prior to this exercise had held
training programmes for front staff officers at hotels,
hotel managers and the owners.
GNA
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