{"id":156457,"date":"2024-02-27T16:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T16:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T16:00:54","slug":"tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his State of the Nation address which covered a wide range of major campaign promises, including the creative arts industry.<\/p>\n<p>During his address which took place in Parliament earlier today, the President mentioned that the country\u2019s tourism sector is finally realizing its long-promised potential.<br \/>He continued by saying that the tourism industry developed into a popular travel destination, with an annual increase in visitor numbers, beginning with the festivities and excitement of the Year of Return in 2019.<br \/>He disclosed that this is the first time the government has completely renovated and modernised the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park since it was built in 1992.<br \/>Since the renovated park was put into operation in July of last year, both domestic and foreign visitor numbers have significantly increased.<br \/>Between July 14 and December 31, 2023, two hundred and eight thousand, five hundred and fifty-seven (208,557) domestic and foreign people had visited the park since its commissioning.<br \/>He said other amenities are undergoing renovations, and it\u2019s encouraging to see the business sector being involved in the creation of tourism destinations.<br \/>He disclosed that the National Museum Gallery, which had been shuttered since 2015, had also had a complete renovation and drawn over 35,000 visitors in 2023, a large portion of which were schoolchildren.<br \/>According to him, the Second Lady recently ordered the construction of the Kente Museum in Bonwire, in the Ashanti Region, to conserve Ghana\u2019s cultural legacy.<br \/>\u201cBuilding will soon begin as the preparatory work and designs for the Heroes Park, a museum honouring Ghana\u2019s founding fathers, the Big Six: JB Danquah, Emmanuel Obetsebi-Lamptey, Edward Akufo-Addo, Ebenezer AkoAdjei, William Ofori-Atta, and Kwame Nkrumah, were completed in December 2023,\u201d he stated.<br \/>According to him, the government, working via the National Film Authority, is dedicated to fostering the creation of top-notch movies and material as well as expanding Ghana\u2019s and the continent\u2019s cinematic landscape.<br \/>To achieve this, he stated that Cabinet is currently developing a favourable fiscal (tax) regime for movie projects.<br \/>It is anticipated to be released very soon and will offer additional concrete justification for selecting Ghana as a location for film production.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>By George Clifford Owusu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his State of the Nation address which covered a wide range of major campaign promises, including the creative arts industry. During his address which took place in Parliament earlier today, the President mentioned that the country\u2019s tourism sector is finally realizing its long-promised potential.He continued by saying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-156457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - 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\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his State of the Nation address which covered a wide range of major campaign promises, including the creative arts industry. During his address which took place in Parliament earlier today, the President mentioned that the country\u2019s tourism sector is finally realizing its long-promised potential.He continued by saying [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ghana News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\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\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"headline\":\"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":363,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"articleSection\":[\"Entertainment\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/\",\"name\":\"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/02\\\/27\\\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5\",\"name\":\"Ghana News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Ghana News\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.ghanamma.com\\\/2024\\\/author\\\/ghanamma\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com","og_description":"\u00a0 President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered his State of the Nation address which covered a wide range of major campaign promises, including the creative arts industry. During his address which took place in Parliament earlier today, the President mentioned that the country\u2019s tourism sector is finally realizing its long-promised potential.He continued by saying [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/","og_site_name":"Ghanamma.com","article_published_time":"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00","author":"Ghana News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Ghana News","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/"},"author":{"name":"Ghana News","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"headline":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo","datePublished":"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/"},"wordCount":363,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","articleSection":["Entertainment"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/","name":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"","datePublished":"2024-02-27T16:00:54+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":""},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/02\/27\/tourism-potential-being-realised-akufo-addo\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tourism Potential Being Realised \u2013Akufo-Addo"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"Ghana mma provides breaking news, top stories in Ghana, Africa, business, entertainment, politics and more.","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/#\/schema\/person\/c70749f3edfbfcd92d45e933f0fe10b5","name":"Ghana News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/22cb97c2b08df229330efb2b8c2645feaae8d3ca3ee434035fbb668b5b82f570?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Ghana News"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024"],"url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/author\/ghanamma\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}