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Also entertainment, business, science, technology and health news. en-uk Sun, 21 Nov 2009 05:51:58 +0100 BO Adamson - info@modernghana.com 11/21/2009 5:51:58 AM Bright Owusu - webmaster@modernghana.com All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. 60 http://www.modernghana.com/news/249902/1/british-investor-calls-for-review-of-visa-fees-to-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249902/1/british-investor-calls-for-review-of-visa-fees-to-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249902/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 18 Nov 2009 14:55:43 +0100 0 Ghana and Nigeria have agreed to form the nucleus of a West African tourism renaissance aimed at setting the tone for the promotion of multidestination tours in the subregion This was the outcome of discussions held between Mr Julius Debrah the Executive Director of the Ghana Tourist Board and Otunba Segun Runsewe the Director General of the ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/249194/1/ghana-nigeria-to-form-tourism-nucleus.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/249194/1/ghana-nigeria-to-form-tourism-nucleus.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/249194/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 13 Nov 2009 17:45:38 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/248628/1/tourism-ministry-targets-one-million-dollars-in-in.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248628/1/tourism-ministry-targets-one-million-dollars-in-in.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248628/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 11 Nov 2009 13:40:54 +0100 0 The Metropolitan Chief Executive for Cape Coast Mr Anthony Egyir Aikins said the assembly is evolving strategies to facilitate the growth of the tourism industry generate employment for the people and attract the needed foreign exchange for developmentIt will in this regard redesign the ancient city of Cape Coast by rezoning the coastal ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/248348/1/oguaa-assembly-to-boost-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248348/1/oguaa-assembly-to-boost-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248348/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 10 Nov 2009 14:01:58 +0100 0 TRADITION IN INNOVATIONIt is a great honour for us that for the first time in the history of the GHANA to announce TURKISH EXPORT PRODUCTS Fair considered by the economic actors of the region as the most important fair TURKEY can present itself as a Partner CountryTURKISH enterprises are participating in this program of outstanding import ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/248257/1/made-in-turkey-exhibition-12-15-november-2009-la-a.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/248257/1/made-in-turkey-exhibition-12-15-november-2009-la-a.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/248257/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 10 Nov 2009 09:42:39 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/247643/1/oguaa-assembly-to-re-zone-coastal-stretch-to-boost.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/247643/1/oguaa-assembly-to-re-zone-coastal-stretch-to-boost.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/247643/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 06 Nov 2009 15:24:57 +0100 0 The Metro Mass Transit Limited MMT is to introduce a service called Weekend Drive to support governments quest of encouraging the growth of domestic tourism and making it the number one foreign income earner The service which will commence in November this year is also aimed at providing an affordable means of transportation for G ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/245536/1/mmt-introduces-weekend-drive-to-boost-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245536/1/mmt-introduces-weekend-drive-to-boost-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245536/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 25 Oct 2009 22:08:31 +0100 0 A leisure facility built around the Ayafie Waterfall has been launched for the purposes of tourist attractionThe Chiefs and people of Gbadzeme in the Avatime Traditional Area on Saturday held a durbar to launch facility The Waterfall said to be little known is a meter tumble of the perennial River Oteahavor from the mountains of Am ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/245509/1/ayafie-tourist-centre-inaugurated.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245509/1/ayafie-tourist-centre-inaugurated.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245509/1/#showcomments2 Mon, 25 Oct 2009 19:46:57 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/245103/1/how-to-improve-cultural-tourism-in-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/245103/1/how-to-improve-cultural-tourism-in-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/245103/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 23 Oct 2009 10:00:16 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/244938/1/seal-the-deal-climate-change-could-stem-global-tou.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/244938/1/seal-the-deal-climate-change-could-stem-global-tou.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/244938/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 22 Oct 2009 13:41:27 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/242566/1/un-convenes-world-tourism-leaders-to-plan-recovery.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/242566/1/un-convenes-world-tourism-leaders-to-plan-recovery.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/242566/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 08 Oct 2009 17:21:35 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/241562/1/tourism-plays-key-role-in-preserving-worlds-rich-d.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241562/1/tourism-plays-key-role-in-preserving-worlds-rich-d.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241562/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 01 Oct 2009 09:52:46 +0100 0 The just ended UN World Tourism Celebrations hosted by Ghana has been described as a flop and denied the country the necessary benefits it should have gained from hosting such a conference Former Deputy Minister of Tourism in the Kufuor administration Kofi Osei Ameyaw says the current administration showed gross ineptitude in the o ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/241379/1/un-world-tourism-celebrations-in-ghana-was-a-flop.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241379/1/un-world-tourism-celebrations-in-ghana-was-a-flop.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241379/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 30 Sep 2009 17:19:48 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/241325/1/develop-tourist-sites.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241325/1/develop-tourist-sites.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241325/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 30 Sep 2009 14:03:11 +0100 0 The Ministry of Tourism in collaboration with the United Nations Tourism Organization UNWTO has embarked on a cocoa trail to the Eastern Region to climax the weeklong World Tourism celebrations in GhanaThe trip which was supposed to be the culmination of the weeklong celebrations took the team including foreign dignitaries ministers of ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/241149/1/tourists-visit-tetteh-quarshie-cocoa-farm.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241149/1/tourists-visit-tetteh-quarshie-cocoa-farm.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241149/1/#showcomments2 Wed, 29 Sep 2009 18:33:14 +0100 0 President John Evans Atta Mills on Sunday observed that the implementation of a fouryear tourism sector medium term development plan would take off next year In a speech read on his behalf at the opening of the think tank session of the ongoing World Tourism Day celebration he said The tourism sector medium term development plan wi ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/241040/1/government-to-implement-tourism-development-plan.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241040/1/government-to-implement-tourism-development-plan.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241040/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 28 Sep 2009 23:33:01 +0100 0 Two months after President Obamas visit the coastal West African nation hosts the th UN World Tourism Day tomorrow The position in size of Lake Volta the planets largest manmade lake Day trips on the lake are offered by Expert Travel and cost US per person including lunch expertravelcomgh The start ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/241014/1/travel-by-numbers-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/241014/1/travel-by-numbers-ghana.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/241014/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 28 Sep 2009 23:25:10 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240844/1/international-travel-writers-laud-ghanas-tourist-s.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240844/1/international-travel-writers-laud-ghanas-tourist-s.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240844/1/#showcomments2 Tue, 28 Sep 2009 11:02:28 +0100 0 Participants at an International Tourism conference on Friday condemned tourists who exploit children sexually pointing out that the act had legal implicationsMr Abdul Razak Yakubu Programmes Coordinator of Enslavement Prevention Alliance West Africa EPAWA a nongovernmental organisation NGO that advocates against sex tourism ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/240719/1/tourism-practitioners-discuss-sex-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240719/1/tourism-practitioners-discuss-sex-tourism.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240719/1/#showcomments2 Sun, 26 Sep 2009 11:48:24 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240645/1/ghana-needs-an-active-domestic-tourism-plan.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240645/1/ghana-needs-an-active-domestic-tourism-plan.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240645/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 25 Sep 2009 17:23:55 +0100 0 Even though tourist arrivals at Kakum Park in the Central Region reached in only tour guides are at post at the national tourist site an official of the park said on Wednesday We have staff members out of which only of us are tour guides the rest are security persons front desk staff and other peripheral staff Ms K ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/240606/1/huge-tourist-arrivals-overwhelms-kakum-staff.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240606/1/huge-tourist-arrivals-overwhelms-kakum-staff.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240606/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 25 Sep 2009 11:52:16 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240520/1/ghana-needs-an-active-domestic-tourism-plan-akyea.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240520/1/ghana-needs-an-active-domestic-tourism-plan-akyea.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240520/1/#showcomments2 Sat, 25 Sep 2009 00:25:25 +0100 0 Located in the Tamale Region of Northern west Ghana hours drive from Tamale is the Mole Game Reserve Covering an area of square kilometres of land httpimgmodernghanacomimagescontentelephantsjpgthe Mole Game Reserve is the longest fully established national park in Ghana This beautiful park has mammalian spe ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/240421/1/mole-game-reserve-a-must-see-for-every-tourist.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240421/1/mole-game-reserve-a-must-see-for-every-tourist.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240421/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 24 Sep 2009 10:38:06 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240404/1/huge-tourist-arrivals-overwhelms-staff-of-kakum-pa.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240404/1/huge-tourist-arrivals-overwhelms-staff-of-kakum-pa.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240404/1/#showcomments2 Fri, 24 Sep 2009 09:29:27 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240402/1/lets-focus-on-sub-regional-tourism-the-gambia.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240402/1/lets-focus-on-sub-regional-tourism-the-gambia.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240402/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 22:13:43 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240401/1/naval-rating-drowns-while-saving-holiday-maker.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240401/1/naval-rating-drowns-while-saving-holiday-maker.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240401/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 22:13:43 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240396/1/support-tourism-support-your-economy.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240396/1/support-tourism-support-your-economy.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240396/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 21:56:11 +0100 0 http://www.modernghana.com/news/240346/1/allen-embarks-on-500-kilometre-walk-to-mark-world-.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240346/1/allen-embarks-on-500-kilometre-walk-to-mark-world-.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240346/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 20:20:25 +0100 0 Mrs Gifty Quansah Acting Marketing Manager of Ghana Tourists Board GTB announced this at a pretour briefing for a group of foreign and local travel writers in Accra on Tuesday The writers from Ghana United States United Kingdom Germany Italy Spain Russia and the Netherlands toured some sites and communities in Accra as p ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/240308/1/698069-tourists-visited-ghana-in-2008.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240308/1/698069-tourists-visited-ghana-in-2008.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240308/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 19:23:36 +0100 0 Minister for Tourism Mrs Juliana AzumahMenash drumming to officially open the tourism exhibition The Minister for Tourism Juliana AzumahMenash has said that tourism which is the fastest growing industry worldwide has the potential to stimulate the growth of other sectors of the economyIn this regard Ghana should take advanta ...]]> http://www.modernghana.com/news/240197/1/tourism-minister-calls-for-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/news/240197/1/tourism-minister-calls-for-support.html http://www.modernghana.com/newsthread1/240197/1/#showcomments2 Thu, 23 Sep 2009 12:40:20 +0100 0