Senior Lecturer and head of hospitality and resort administration (HTM) on the Tamale Technical College, Dr Alhassan Fatawu, has urged the federal government to make use of the hospitality and tourism sector to bridge the gender unemployment hole as many ladies have developed a eager curiosity in that space.
Judging from the place he sits as a lecturer of hospitality and resort administration, Dr Fatawu says the variety of ladies who enrol for the programme yr within the northern area is phenomenal and this requires extra coaching for them in order that sector, thereby discouraging them from migrating to the south to interact in every kind of menial jobs which don’t yield any good revenue for them.
He mentioned about 99 per cent of the scholars admitted yearly on the division are females, therefore, the necessity for presidency help within the sector to allow them to contribute to household wants and the socio-economic actions of the nation.
“Hospitality is by far Ghana and the world. Globally, it’s the trade that has the potential to make use of extra folks so if we now have extra ladies being majority educated within the hospitality trade to curb the unemployment charge, we have to take it severely.
As a rustic, if we are able to determine the potentials of the sector and see the hospitality and tourism administration programme as a strategic device to empower ladies to forestall them from migrating to the southern sector, extra funding could be injected into the sector to reinforce the programme that may assist to diffuse the notion that the place of the ladies is the kitchen.
These are individuals who have undertaken house economics from the senior excessive colleges whereas others are additionally from technical and vocational establishments who lack the amenities wanted to be given the mandatory coaching earlier than shifting to the world “, he mentioned in an interview with the B&FT.
Dr Fatawu additional burdened the necessity for feminine training particularly, within the northern a part of the nation because the younger girls within the area have a robust want to be educated however are typically denied the appropriate by their mother and father.
“In northern Ghana, usually, feminine training till just lately was a lot challenged with the rights of ladies curtailed as they have been prevented from climbing up the upper instructional ladder with solely males allowed to pursue any course of their alternative and this doesn’t augur effectively for the nation in bridging the gender hole.
Now that we’ve the departmental admit extra females and practice them effectively to suit the society, we have to encourage the females to reap the benefits of the chance to reinforce their data and future profession,” he mentioned.
He added that some pupil had handed by the division has taken benefit of the covid-19 pandemic season to interact in some enterprise and this has helped them to generate some income with promoting of meals, drinks and animal merchandise.
Dr. Fatawu additional added that, if the division is supported with the mandatory sources , it effectively broaden its amenities to assist admit extra females to be educated to create job alternatives for themselves and in addition grow to be a hub for the ladies empowerment and coaching so far as Northern Ghana is worried.
Tourism-The Unbeatable Worldwide sacred cash-cow
TOURISM a broad and multi-sectoral holistic trade is based on pure, man-made, cultural and heritage sources.
It’s a peerless multi-sectoral, multi-purpose and multi-million-dollar aggressive worldwide trade. It has established and ranked as the most important, quickest and largest rising fashionable trade on the earth, for the reason that flip of the millennium and has firmly consolidated its standing as an integral side of the general international socio-economic frontier, it stands out to rework and repositioned many economies in some instances because the foremost contributor to the gross home product (GDP) for a lot of economies from each developed and growing divide throughout board on the earth.
Traits
Tourism has emerged as a really resilient and fashionable aggressive and essential and strategic worldwide quickest, greatest and largest trade which has flip across the fortunes of many challenged economies internationally.
It’s an impressive labour intensive trade inclusive trade which provides a number of job alternatives for each expert and unskilled labour.
It additionally brings of uncommon and scare international change into many tourism-proactive economies.
Fast & stability socio-economic transformation
The trade additionally an impressive growth catalyst which helps and promotes inclusive and holistic stability growth and transformation of many a tourism proactive economic system, since tourism sources and property are pretty throughout locations.
Aggressive benefit
Political stability, relative nationwide peace, security and safety, quite a few historic slavery and slave commerce landmarks together with forts and castles, slave wells, markets and others are all intangible and delicate nationwide tourism selling-points (USPs) which give Ghana tourism aggressive benefit over its friends.
Nationwide Tourism Laws
The continues absence and lack of nationwide tourism laws (NTL) and its related coverage regime (PR), which accounts for the absence of complete nationwide tourism growth technique (NTDS) is a serious impediment that impedes Ghana’s fast tourism growth and evolution.
UNWTO
The United Nations World Tourism Group is a Madrid, Spain primarily based UN specialist company which champions and promotes accountable and sustainable tourism growth world wide.
Forecasts
Researches and research by the UNWTO and different big respected worldwide multilateral and bilateral establishments together with the World Tourism and Journey Council, (WTTC ),the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP), the UNESCO, the World Mental Property Group, (WIPO), the World Surroundings Programme (WEP) amongst others has concluded firmly that tourism is a really dynamic, strong and versatile resilient trade , as such its affect on the worldwide economic system could be greater and higher as long as practitioners, buyers, crops and locations strictly adhere to UNWTO finest trade practices, conventions, pointers , protocols and rules, as such Ghana can’t afford to miss-out on the tourism evolution, there may be the pressing want for the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Tradition to established UNWTO directorate to co-ordinate and deepen Ghana’s relationship with the UN Tourism specialist big. Nationwide Tourism resource-mix outlook
Ghana has an impressive very stability nationwide potential and sources in all of the 4 broad useful resource classifications of pure, man-made, cultural and heritage sources, that are pretty positioned throughout the size and breadth of the nation.
Notable amongst nationwide tourism heritage sources embrace all historic slavery and colonial forts and castles and different associated slavery landmarks embrace Slave wells and markets in Salaga, Gwolu Slave Protection Partitions, Assin Fosu Slave River, Memorial Gardens and Analysis Centre amongst others.
Amongst nationwide pure tourism sources encompass the Afadjato at Amedzofe and Wli Waterfall, reputed as West Africa’s tallest waterfalls at Wli close to Hohoe within the Afadjato South District Meeting (ASD) and the Hohoe Municipal Meeting (HM) respectively each within the Volta Area, the Equator and the Greenwich Meridian each in Tema within the Tema Metropolitan Meeting (Tema Metropolis), Larger Accra Area, there may be additionally the historic Centre of Our Homeland and its related landmarks at Kintampo in Kintampo North Municipal Meeting ( Kintampo North Municipal ) Bono East Area.
Kakum Forest Reserve and its Cover Walkway on the Kakum Nationwide Park at Kakum , within the Central Area is one other in style pure tourism attraction in addition to West Africa’s Largest Tree at Espan Forest Reserve close to Oda within the Asene Manso-Akroso District Meeting (Asene Manso- Akroso District), within the Jap Area.
Begro Waterfalls, Tinni Waterfalls and Ote Waterfalls are different excellent nationwide pure tourism property, positioned at Begro within the Fanteakwa North District, Atiwa West District and Afadjato South Districts within the Jap & Volta Areas respectively.
Cape Coast Fortress a UNESCO World Heritage Property is a peerless nationwide tourism cash-cow
Man-made sources
Man-made nationwide tourism sources however embrace the Volta Dam and Hydro-Electrical Works at Akosombo and Volta Resort each within the Asogyaman District of the Jap Area.
The remainder are Tema and Takoradi harbours, the Osagyefuo Dr, Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum and Memorial Park, in Tema, Takoradi and Accra respectively.
Different exceptional and distinguished man-made nationwide tourism sources are the Independence and the Black Star Sq., Accra, Kotoka Worldwide, Ho, Kumasi and Tamale Airports , Kempimski Gold Coast Metropolis Resort , Royal Senchi Resort, La Palm Golden Seashore Resort, Golden Tulip Resort, Elmina Seashore, Vacation Inn, Marriot Worldwide , Alisa, Maha Seashore Resort, Sogakope Seashore Resort,Peduase Valley Resorts, Bojo Seashore Resort, Jofel Catering, Papaye,Tang Palace and Kentucky Fried Rooster (KFC),Alisa Motels, Movempic Ambassador, Accra Metropolis Resort, Tang Palace, Accra Sports activities Stadium ,Alhaji Aliu Mahama Sports activities Stadium, Tamale are different distinctive man-made nationwide tourism amenities within the nation which add color and gliitz to the nation’s evergreen toddler tourism trade.
The Adomi Bridge, Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Cocoa Farms and Museum, Oku Abena Caves,Oboodor da Oboor So Rock, Oworobong, Atia Mframa Pure Stone , Pan-African Theatre and Arts Pageant (PANAFEST), Aboakyer,Agbamevorzaa,Agbelizaa, Asafotufiam, Akwasidae, Bugum, Emancipation, Fetu Afakye,Hogbetsotozaa, Homowo,Teezaa,Kundum, Kplejo, Odirwa Cultural Pageant are different distinguished nationwide cultural tourism distinctive promoting factors , (USPs).
Nationwide particular tourism treasures and occasions
A numbers of artistic and revolutionary occasions on the nationwide tourism calendar which have repositioned the nation as an rising tourism vacation spot embrace PANAFEST, Emancipation, Nationwide Chocolate Day, Wli Waterfalls Pageant, Nationwide Grasp-Paragliding Festivals are amongst raft of particular occasions which make the nation engaging and aggressive touristically.
Let’s reengineer, reset & restart …
Nationwide Tourism Prepare Afresh…on strict, sound & holistic UNWTO finest trade follow ideas to rework & reposition nation as UNWTO Centre of Excellence Mannequin and sound administration ideas
EXPERIENCE is the most effective trainer is a well-liked African adage, we introduced tourism to the entrance burner as sacred and strategic essential nationwide growth catalyst in 1993 with the formal creation of the erstwhile Ministry of Tourism (MOT), whose creation successfully granted the sector autonomy which was till then clamped as a footnote to others together with info, commerce, training amongst others.
MOT then set nationwide tourism potential harnessing, growth and evolution trajectory in movement.
Trajectory
MOT and nationwide tourism growth as a complete, has since undergone a number of transitional phases and adjustments together with the historic 1996-2010 15-year long run complete nationwide tourism growth roadmap doc, realigning and rebranding of MOT at one time or one other , variously designated and labeled together with Ministry of Tourism and Modernization of the Capital Metropolis (MOT&MCC), tourism and diasporan relations (MOTDR),tourism (MOT), tourism, artistic arts and humanities (MOTCAA) and at present at tourism, arts and tradition and counting.
Current Nationwide Tourism Improvement Narrative
Ghana is an rising subsequent and promising African and worldwide tourism, that is help by relative nationwide political stability, security and safety, which is mirrored within the consist and improved annual enhance in tourism receipts and customer numbers, particularly from 1991, till 2019, when the sudden debilitating and devastating corona virus (covid-19) pandemic, got here to scuttle an in any other case burgeoning and promising toddler trade.
Ghana has earlier than the pandemic firmly confirmed its readiness to a really grand take-off of an African and worldwide big tourism growth and evolution.
Tourism arrivals and receipts from 1991 to 2001
| 12 months | Arrivals | Receipts (US$) |
| 1991 | 172,464 | 117.70 |
| 1992 | 213,316 | 166.90 |
| 1993 | 256,680 | 205.62 |
| 1994 | 271,310 | 227.60 |
| 1995 | 286,000 | 233.20 |
| 1996 | 304,860 | 248.80 |
| 1997 | 325,438 | 265.59 |
| 1998 | 347,952 | 283.96 |
| 1999 | 372,653 | 304.12 |
| 2000 | 3999,000 | 386.00 |
| 2001 | 438,833 | 447.83 |
Golden Tourism Improvement Trajectory
The quick interval previous the Fourth (4th) Republic, particularly from 1991 by 1993, when the Ministry of Tourism was previously created so far can appropriately labelled because the golden period in our nationwide tourism growth trajectory.
Succeeding Ministers
The sector ministry was administered by a lot of political appointees through the years at one interval or the opposite as Minister of State (MOS) through the years together with fallen embellished public servants as Mrs. Vida Amaadi Yeboah, Madam Hawa Ogede Yakubu and Mr. Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, the fallen celebrated and ubiquitous Communication and Advertising Strategist.
While surviving ex-tourism ministers of state (tourism) embrace Mr. Mike Afedi Gizo ( now Nene M , Mr. Kwamena Bartels,Mr. Stephen Asamoah Boateng, Madam Oboshie Sai Coffie, Mrs. Juliana Azuma Mensah, Mama Zita, Ambassador Mrs. Akua Sena Dansua, Mrs. Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare,Mrs. Cathrine Abelema Afeku, Mrs. Barbra Oteng Gyasi and Dr. Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed AWAL presiding. Tourism Act
Laws and authorized regime is one enormous herculean problem which has impeded and stalled Ghana’s tourism ahead progress through the years, trade legal guidelines, legislations and rules are relegated to the again burner and are irregularly reviewed and amended.
The sector is subsequently beset with out of date legal guidelines and rules, duplicative and fragmented items of legal guidelines, for example the Ghana Vacationer Management Board (GTCB), the founding physique company of the trade was established by the Nationwide Redemption Council Decree (NRCD) 1973, NRCD224, which was amended by Supreme Army Council Decree (SMCD) 1977, SMCD 80, which realigned then Ghana Vacationer Management Board (GTCB) into Ghana Vacationer Board (GTB).
GTB to GTA
SMCD 80 didn’t see any modification till 2011, when the Tourism, Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), the tourism growth levy/fund (TDL/F) and the tourism public-private partnership (T-PPP) Act 2011 was enacted which realigned then GTB into the present Ghana Tourism Authority and for the creation of the tourism growth levy/fund as a statutory fund for accelerated nationwide tourism growth.
Legal guidelines
The Nationwide Cultural and Tradition Belief Fund Coverage Doc 2004 was formulated through the interval additionally noticed. Different historic tourism sector enactment which birthed over the interval included was the passage of the Tourism, (T), the Ghana Tourism Authority, (GTA), tourism growth levy/fund, (TDL/F), tourism public-private partnership, (TP-PP) in addition to the Ghana Tourism Authority District Workplace (GTADO) Act 2011, Act 817, which course of commenced through the reign of Mr.Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, as minister of tourism and diasporan relations (MOTDR) and journey all the way in which to Ambassador Akua Sena Dansua’s tenure .
Inventive Act 2020
Different tourism associated legal guidelines handed over the interval have been the Movie Classification and Improvement (FC&D), the Nationwide Movie Authority (NFA) and the Movie Improvement Fund (FDF) Act 2016, Act 935 in addition to the Inventive Arts Company (CAA) and the Inventive Arts Business Fund (CAIF) 2020, Artwork 1048.
Subsector Legal guidelines
Regardless of the absence and the shortage of nationwide tourism variety of tourism subsector items of enactments exist on our statues which give the burgeoning toddler trade the wanted vitality to gel, notable amongst them embrace Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMBB) Act 1969 NLCD 387, the Nationwide Fee on Tradition (NCC) Legislation 1990, PNDCL 238 in addition to the Tourism, Ghana Tourism Authority and the Tourism Improvement Levy/Fund Act 2011, Act 817. Plenty of items of decrees, enactments and laws devices (LI), that are at present related and relevant to our tourism sector embrace the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) and the Tourism Improvement Fund Act 2011, Act 817, the Nationwide Fee on Tradition (NCC) Legislation 1990, PNDCL 238 and the Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMBB) Legislation 1969,NLCD387.
Different appropriate, related and relevant sub-tourism trade legal guidelines on our statues are the Chieftaincy Act 2008, Act 759, the Nationwide Tradition Coverage 2004, the Nationwide Movie Authority (NFA), the Movie Improvement Fund (FDF) Act 2016, Act 935 in addition to the Inventive Arts Company (CAA) Act 2020, Act 1048.
Duplication, fragmentation & obsolesces
Widespread options synonymous with all above tourism associated legal guidelines are duplications, fragmentations and obsolesces there may be subsequently the necessity to revise, amend and harmonized these items of tourism associated enactments right into a single modified tourism sector regulatory doc.
Means Ahead
Tourism as a global aggressive cash-cow which trade which may be very a lot essential and essential to our present nationwide growth and socio-economic transformation aspirations that we can’t afford to lose on the worldwide tourism growth evolution.
UNWTO finest follow compliant tourism growth technique fundamentals
It is rather incumbent that we undertake very pragmatic methods to and utilization of leading edge with fashionable and complete nationwide tourism laws (NTL), authorized and coverage regime (LPR), principally making certain that get and use permitted and proper methods and fundamentals (ARS&Fs), that are very appropriate and in keeping with the United Nationwide World Tourism Group (UNWTO) finest trade follow ideas, protocols, conventions, guidelines, rules and pointers in nationwide tourism potential harnessing and growth, to make sure accountable and sustainable growth and evolution of the nation’s burgeoning toddler tourism trade, to in the end remodel and reposition Ghana our Homeland into a global UNWTO mannequin vacation spot, the centre of excellence and a lovely and aggressive worldwide tourism hub.
Nationwide Tourism & Hospitality Laws
The urgently wanted nationwide tourism laws (NTL) should additionally go hand in hand with nationwide hospitality laws (NHL), which should think about designating conventional authorities and rulers (TARs), metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies (MMDAs) as statutory and strategic (S&S) frontline tourism custodians (FTC) and engaging tourism facility location tax rebates and incentives (TFLTR&Is), to diversify and promote inclusive and holistic stability nationwide tourism growth throughout the nation.
Evaluation, amend & harmonized subsector legal guidelines
One other essential space which wants pressing consideration is the necessity to revise, evaluation, amend all tourism subsector legal guidelines on our statues, these legal guidelines are very out of date, fragmented and duplicated, there may be have to harmonize these items of tourism subsector legal guidelines right into a single trade regulatory guideline doc.
Merge & restructure GTA, GMMB & NCC nomenclature
One other essential essential space needing consideration on the tourism sector restructuring and overhaul name for the necessity to merge the three most excellent tourism frontline implementing businesses particularly the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Ghana Museums and Monuments Board (GMBB) and the Nationwide Fee on Tradition (NCC), physique corporates, merchandise and creations of the Tourism 2011, Act 817, GMBB Legislation 1969, NLCD 387 and the NCC Legislation 1990, PNDCL 238 respectively.
The three merged physique corporates have to restructured and cut up as two new fashionable, well-resourced and staffed physique corporates because the nationwide tourism regulator (NTR) and model Ghana vacation spot supervisor (DM) respectively.
Eco-Heritage & Hospitality-Three most Unexplored USPs
TOURISM as a global aggressive cash-cow evolves and will get keener and keener and projected to proceed unabated for a really lengthy interval for so long as frontline trade practitioners, gamers, stakeholders and collaborators adhere strictly to all UNWTO Finest trade follow protocols and different associated guidelines and rules.
Nations, locations, amenities and practitioners have resorted to figuring out their aggressive strengths which they prioritize and harnessed to rework into aggressive area of interest vacation spot for the specified trade market share.
Ghana is but to determine its aggressive tourism strengths and develop to grow to be an impressive and aggressive area of interest hub.
Nevertheless Eco, heritage and hospitality, particularly the quite a few nationwide parks, their wildlife and natural world species, the notorious slavery, slave and colonization landmarks together with the forts and castles, slave markets, wells, rivers, routes.
Eco-Tourism
Nationwide Eco-tourism energy is bolstered by the excellent leads to each customer numbers and receipts from nationwide Eco-tourism pilot initiatives promoted in 2001-2003, while nationwide heritage energy however was delivered to the fore in 2019 through the 400th slavery anniversary yr of return (YOR) celebration.
Hospitality
Ghana’s excellent hospitality can also be mirrored in Ghana’s acknowledged and aclaimed world rated heat hospitality, and engaging diversified nationwide gastronomy outlook subsectors stands out as Ghana’s strategic and distinctive tourism-points (USPs), when prioritized and harnessed can quickly and dramatically flip Ghana’s socio-economic fortunes round.
