{"id":752244,"date":"2019-11-26T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/26\/lets-tap-into-tourism-veep\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T11:03:53","slug":"lets-tap-into-tourism-veep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/26\/lets-tap-into-tourism-veep\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Tap Into Tourism &#8211; Veep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Vice-President Dr. Bawumia interacting with some participants including Tourism Minister Barbara Oteng-Gyasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vice-President<br \/>\nDr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said there is a huge tourism potential to be harnessed<br \/>\nin Africa towards accelerated development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe<br \/>\nshould promote our local content in all sectors of the regional economy given<br \/>\nthe enormous resources that have gone into developing human capital in our<br \/>\ncountries,\u201d he said yesterday when he delivered a keynote address at the first \u201cRegional<br \/>\nCongress on Women in Tourism Sector \u2013 Focus on Africa\u201d in Accra yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>He tasked<br \/>\nparticipants at the two-day workshop to explore how they could use tourism to<br \/>\ntackle some of Africa\u2019s common development challenges, including poverty,<br \/>\nilliteracy, diseases, outmoded cultural practices and mismanagement of its natural<br \/>\nresources. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<br \/>\nindulge all of you to contribute generously to improve the industry and empower<br \/>\nwomen in tourism for sustainable development and to improve the living standards<br \/>\nof our people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also<br \/>\nstressed the need for proper deliberations on how to improve on timely collection, analysis<br \/>\nand dissemination of tourism data in order to inform strategic decision-making<br \/>\nfor all stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>He said<br \/>\nthat was because \u201ctourism constitutes one of the fastest growing sectors in the<br \/>\nworld and that the industry has become a global and highly competitive socioeconomic<br \/>\nand environmental activity in both developed and developing countries. It is a<br \/>\nlabour-intensive industry, creating skilled and unskilled jobs in the supply<br \/>\nvalue chains.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe<br \/>\ntourism market has shown strong growth across Africa in recent years. The UN<br \/>\nWorld Tourism Organization\u2019s 2016 Highlights report found that Africa welcomed<br \/>\nnearly 55.3 million international tourists in 2014 and sub-Saharan Africa<br \/>\naccounted for 63 per cent of the number. In the decade from 2005 to 2016,<br \/>\ntourism in Africa increased by about 51 per cent,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Dr.<br \/>\nBawumia referred to a recent published data by the World Bank, trends in the<br \/>\ntourism market, which suggested a phenomenal growth in the industry over the<br \/>\npast decade and a half, which also indicated that the most popular reason for<br \/>\nvisiting Ghana may be shifting from leisure and recreation to business and<br \/>\nprofessional purposes, with increasing spending per visitor. <\/p>\n<p>As a<br \/>\nresult of that, the Vice-President indicated<br \/>\nthat \u201ctourism has a great potential to accelerate<br \/>\nprogress across the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Well managed, the<br \/>\nsector could generate quality jobs, reduce poverty and offer incentives for<br \/>\nenvironmental conservation \u2013 a triple-win to help countries transition towards<br \/>\nmore inclusive and resilient economies. And tourism ranks as one of the major<br \/>\nsource of foreign exchange earnings in many developing countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Present at the activity were the chairperson of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Regional Commission for Africa, who is also the Minister for Arts and Culture in Zambia and his colleague Ghanaian Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture and Creative Arts, Barbara Oteng Gyasi; Ronald Chitotela, Secretary General of the UNWTO; Zurab Pololikashvili and the First Lady of Zimbabwe, Auxillia Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent <\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President Dr. Bawumia interacting with some participants including Tourism Minister Barbara Oteng-Gyasi Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said there is a huge tourism potential to be harnessed in Africa towards accelerated development. \u201cWe should promote our local content in all sectors of the regional economy given the enormous resources that have gone into developing human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":752245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Let\u2019s Tap Into Tourism - Veep - 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\/2019\/11\/26\/lets-tap-into-tourism-veep\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Let\u2019s Tap Into Tourism - Veep - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Vice-President Dr. Bawumia interacting with some participants including Tourism Minister Barbara Oteng-Gyasi Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said there is a huge tourism potential to be harnessed in Africa towards accelerated development. \u201cWe should promote our local content in all sectors of the regional economy given the enormous resources that have gone into developing human [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/tourism.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/26\\\/lets-tap-into-tourism-veep\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/11\\\/26\\\/lets-tap-into-tourism-veep\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2019\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/53d06a757a4242f113d200e3c290c036\"},\"headline\":\"Let\u2019s Tap Into Tourism &#8211; 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