Tourism in recent years has become a well-liked leisure activity all around the world. Tourism is travel done for pleasure, business, or both.
Many people have reported feeling inspired by our diverse lifestyle and background to explore new ideas and engage in novel experiences.
It is also known that students who partake in excursions in most Junior high schools never forget what they are taught in the classroom.
Being nurtured in a community or school that partake in extra curriculum activities make a lot of impact. We can’t always have it all in the classroom.
A school’s excursion programme caters for children who are anxious to read and learn. It helps children who read with drawbacks get expect visible assistance and all sorts of spurs to research on.
Ghana as a nation has over 50 tourist sites to serve an entire population of over 33 million. These tourist sites are supposed to attract investors but we aren’t putting things right. The economies of countless nations depend heavily on tourism. Tourism is a closely-related combination of economic and sociocultural issues that generate enormous sums of money for the purchase of goods and services for export and import, opens positions for employment, generates tax revenue, and stimulates growth in transportation, hospitality, and entertainment sectors of the economy.
Access to good tourism preserves our heritage. It protects and finances the preservation of historic and cultural sites and the creation of new community initiatives, yet Ghanaians face a diversity of access drawbacks.
Ideally, Ghanaians should be able to conveniently and confidently get access to quality tourism life and explore thier own country.
It is relatively painful to cite that an economy like Ghana that is internationally recognised with numerous tourist sites, has not paid much attention to its tourism potential even though the sector can generate more money than oil for the country.
The ‘Year Of Return’ during which thousands visited Ghana, generated about $1.9 billion into the Ghanaian economy. Ghana can benefit more than this from the tourism sector to accelerate development of our tourist sites and indeed the country at large.
Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) also reported of 100 percent hotel occupancy rate recorded during this festival with increased bookings for tours to areas linked to the trans-Atlantic slave trade such as the Elmina and cape coast castles.
Indeed, the tourism sector should be a vital area where government should fully develop as it will generate revenue to finance development projects and the crucial challenges encountering the tourism industry.
Regrettably, the sector is bedevilled with numerous challenges including poor funding, ineffective management officers and lack of proper education on the need to visit these places as students among others.
The power of a nation to provide reasonable tourism to its populace hinges chiefly on the competence, devotion, courage and deployment of well-trained tourist guards and experts, to furnish an extravagant and booming tourist sites and the allocation of more budgets to tourism industry and more policies to carry tourism activities.
The availability of attractions, which acts as a pull factor, heavily influences both the destinations that tourists choose and their arrivals. It is common to assume that a country has distinctive attractions (tourist sites) that tourists frequently visit.
To enhance the experiences of visitors and encourage return trips, it is crucial to expand these tourist destinations so that both the attractions and the socioeconomic environments meet global standards. The Year of return had cemented Ghana’s Pan-African legacy and had put a global spotlight on the country and helped to position it as a historic and vibrant hub and changed the narrative about Ghana’s tourism industry.
It is therefore import for Ghana to concentrate more on tourism to develop the country.
