The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Tradition, Dr Ibra-him Mohammed Awal, has formally unveiled the endorsed occasions scheduled for the 2022 ‘December in GH’ marketing campaign.
This 12 months’s calendar which incorporates over 90 occasions being en-dorsed by the Past the Return Steering Committee would happen from November 2022 to January 2023.
The actions included,
Afrochella, Little Havana, Style of Ghana, Afro Nation, YouTube Creators Competition, Westside Carni-val, Rhythms on da Runway and the Roverman Productions Competition of Performs.
Different new actions added to the calendar included Ada River-fest, Jollof & Afrobeat Competition, Afrobeats Bazaar, Ghana Water Polo Match, Nkyinkyim Museum Freedom Parade and First Time Dwelling Patrons in Ghana Seminar.
The minister unveiled the occasion throughout a stakeholder engagement and customer support coaching for casual caterers organised by the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in Accra on Monday.
The engagement was to coach and construct capability of the casual caterers on preparedness in the direction of the “December in GH” occasions scheduled for the 12 months.
Talking on the launch, the minister urged the normal caterers to promote Ghanaian tradition by enhancing upon the native dishes to woo potential vacationers into the
nation.
Based on the minister, cul-ture was essentially the most dynamic device for nationwide growth and with out good tradition belongings, tourism can’t be bought.
“Tradition and tourism are hyperlinks. With out good tradition belongings, you can not promote tourism and our tradition is manifested in a number of issues similar to meals , clothes, language and something that we reveals so subsequently conventional caterers performs an vital function in promoting vacationer attraction and making Ghana a pretty vacation spot,” he stated.
Dr Awal stated Ghana had very marketable delicacies however unable to obtain international consideration attributable to poor packaging and repair supply.
He advised the caterers to make sure high quality service and make Ghanaian dishes very enticing to be consumed on the worldwide degree to spice up the nation’s vacationer receipts.
“Do not be deceived concerning the continental dishes. Let’s be proud and promote our genuine Ghanaian meals similar to Waakye, Ga Kenkey, Apkele, Banku, Tuo Zaafi, Fufu, Ampesi. The foreigner does not come from America or different plac-es to return and eat fried rice. They’re uninterested in that. They might wish to style our native dishes and that is what we have now to painting to them to allow them to have a really feel of it,” he added.
The minister disclosed that, about 100,000 worldwide tour-ists have been anticipated to reach into the nation forward of this 12 months’s ‘December in GH’ occasion.
The Chief Govt Officer of the GTA, Mr Akwasi Agyeman stated “Ghana was lately listed as one of many high journey destina-tions by Nationwide Geographic and it is predicted that the nation will obtain a report variety of worldwide vacationers this season and we’re are able to obtain everybody.
We now have kick-started a sequence of engagements with our business stakeholders to make sure that we’re all prepared. We’re encouraging Ghanaians to dwell as much as our repu-tation as a pleasant and hospitable individuals.”
The Supervisor of the Past the Return Secretariat, Ms Anna-belle McKenzie, acknowledged that “We’re anticipating this 12 months to be the big-gest for ‘December in GH’, “We’re enthusiastic about welcoming each returning and first-time travellers to Ghana. We have endorsed extra occasions that contact on the completely different pillars for the Past the Return initiative.”