Ghana Excursions – Higher West Area Hosts 2022 World Tourism Day

The United Nations World Tourism Group’s (UNWTO) World Tourism Day is noticed yearly on September 27 with the purpose of fostering consciousness among the many worldwide group concerning the significance of Tourism and its social, financial, political, and cultural values. The Nationwide Celebration is being hosted At this time, twenty seventh September within the Higher West Area, Wa, beneath the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Tradition.
This yr’s Celebration themed, “Rethinking Tourism”, focuses on how we will speed up tourism restoration by way of a collaborative engagement of all stakeholders round a shared imaginative and prescient to construct a extra sustainable, inclusive and resilient sector. The official World Tourism Day celebration can be held in Bali, Indonesia, on twenty seventh September to focus on the shift in the direction of tourism as a vital pillar of improvement.
As a part of the celebration, Ghana has developed a sub-theme dubbed; Selling Home Tourism for Wealth Creation in Communities to develop the curiosity of Ghanaians for tourism.
Previous to the celebration, excursions have been organised to some vacationer websites equivalent to Nakore Mosque, Royal Cosy Hills (Jirapa Dubai) amongst others. The celebration being climaxed with a Grand Durbar of Chiefs and Queen Moms on the workplace of the Higher West Regional Home of Chiefs in Wa.
World Tourism Day was designated by the World Tourism Group (UNWTO) in September 1979, with the commemoration to start in 1980. This date was chosen to coincide with an necessary milestone in world tourism: the anniversary of the adoption of the UNWTO Statutes on 27 September 1970.