{"id":1212987,"date":"2022-09-29T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/29\/ghana-is-the-no-1-tourism-destination-in-west-africa-deputy-minister-of-tourism-arts-culture\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T01:15:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T01:15:29","slug":"ghana-is-the-no-1-tourism-destination-in-west-africa-deputy-minister-of-tourism-arts-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/29\/ghana-is-the-no-1-tourism-destination-in-west-africa-deputy-minister-of-tourism-arts-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ghana is the No.1 tourism destination in West Africa\u2019 \u2013 Deputy Minister of Tourism, Arts &#038; Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Okraku-Mantey-1024x1024.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts &#038; Culture, Mark Okraku-Mantey, has revealed that Ghana has been declared the No.1 tourism destination in West Africa, by the World Economic Forum.<\/p>\n<p>He made this revelation in an interview with <strong>Prince Tsegah<\/strong> on <strong>Usay Weytin<\/strong> on <strong>Hitz FM<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor your information, at the moment, when it comes to tourism, Ghana has become No.1 in West Africa,\u201d Mr. Okraku-Mantey said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"j_rhFl2oK18\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghana is the No.1 tourism destination in West Africa \u2013  Hon. Mark Okraku-Mantey | U Sey\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_rhFl2oK18?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He also disclosed that the initial target was to achieve that milestone by the next four years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as a country wanted to be No.1 by 2026 in terms of West-African tourism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, the Deputy Minister added that this achievement presents a new challenge to the ministry \u2013 as they are now focused on \u201cworking hard to make Ghana the No.1 tourism destination in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As part of achieving the new target, he urged the public to reason with the ministry by supporting events organized by foreigners here in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised the public to highlight more of the positives when local and international events are hosted in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Through that, foreigners will be attracted to host more events in Ghana, which will go a long way to create jobs for Ghanaians \u2013 as the <em>Global Citizen Festival<\/em> did.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/ghana-is-the-no-1-tourism-destination-in-west-africa-deputy-minister-of-tourism-arts-culture\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts &#038; Culture, Mark Okraku-Mantey, has revealed that Ghana has been declared the No.1 tourism destination in West Africa, by the World Economic Forum. He made this revelation in an interview with Prince Tsegah on Usay Weytin on Hitz FM. \u201cFor your information, at the moment, when it comes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[671,6805,378,651,18757,85,1223,26546,4495,916],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-deputy","12":"tag-destination","13":"tag-ghana","14":"tag-minister","15":"tag-no-1","16":"tag-tourism","17":"tag-west"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}