{"id":394668,"date":"2017-06-06T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/06\/06\/govt-to-construct-airstrip-in-cape-coast\/"},"modified":"2017-06-06T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T20:44:30","slug":"govt-to-construct-airstrip-in-cape-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/06\/govt-to-construct-airstrip-in-cape-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to construct Airstrip in Cape Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!--               \n\n<div class=\"in-ad\">\n\n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1495043641385-0' style='height:250px; width:300px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n              <\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p>The government has earmarked a 3,000 acre of land for the construction of an Airstrip in the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The Airstrip which will\u00a0take light aircrafts when completed is expected to boost tourism\u00a0in the Region.<\/p>\n<p>During an inspection of the land Tuesday, Aviation Minister Cecilia Dapaah told Joy News the intention of government is to \u201copen the country up to investors and tourists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline.com_InArticle_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/3449340397698_1442354043893.png\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:248px; width:450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Aviation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah<\/p>\n<p>She disclosed government plans to construct an international airport in the Region but would first want to start with an Airstrip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will start with an airstrip&#8230;later on when we get a lot of funding we can develop it into a tarmac which will take bigger aircrafts,\u201d the Minister said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/141771435892_3464968902886.png\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:248px; width:450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Region has two of its major tourist sites \u2013 Kakum National Park and Elmina Castle &#8211; on the UNESCO World Heritage map.<\/p>\n<p>Tourism remains one of the major contributors to Ghana\u2019s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).<\/p>\n<p>The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed the total contribution of travel and tourism to the country\u2019s economy was GHS6.24 billion ($1.73 billion) in 2013 or 7.2 percent of GDP.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/8285581449150_9371145778439.png\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:248px; width:450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This has been estimated to triple by 2024 but there remains one major challenge, accessibility to the tourist sites.<\/p>\n<p>The roads to the Kakum National Park and Elmina Castle, as well as other tourist sites in the country, are untarred creating difficulties for tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The only means of transport for tourists who wish\u00a0to visit sites in the Central Region is by road. This means they will have to spend long torturous hours on the Accra-Cape Coast Highway before getting to their destination.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/9898914091702_7307255732154.png\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:248px; width:450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This, the Aviation Minister said,\u00a0informed\u00a0<span style=\"background-color:rgb(246, 213, 217)\">government&#8217;s<\/span>\u00a0decision to construct the Airstrip in the Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want people to sit in the plane for eight hours and come and drive through Bujumbura to visit Kakum National Park or Elmina Castle,\u201d Cecilia Dapaah said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/4695123643355_5676930146809.png\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:5px; height:248px; width:450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The completion of the Airstrip will afford tourists the opportunity to join a lighter aircraft to the Region upon arrival at the Kotoka International Airport, she said, adding it will help to eliminate the harassment they go through.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister appealed to residents of Cape Coast to desist from encroaching on the land &#8220;so that we can have an open space to develop the aviation industry in this Region&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has earmarked a 3,000 acre of land for the construction of an Airstrip in the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast. The Airstrip which will\u00a0take light aircrafts when completed is expected to boost tourism\u00a0in the Region. During an inspection of the land Tuesday, Aviation Minister Cecilia Dapaah told Joy News the intention of government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-business"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov\u2019t to construct Airstrip in Cape Coast - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/06\/06\/govt-to-construct-airstrip-in-cape-coast\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Gov\u2019t to construct Airstrip in Cape Coast - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The government has earmarked a 3,000 acre of land for the construction of an Airstrip in the Central Regional capital, Cape Coast. 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