Graphic launches Ghana Heritage Week
The Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) in collaboration with AH Global, an international travel company, and One People Travels have launched the Ghana Heritage Week 2014 in an effort to promote tourism in the country.
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The week-long activity, scheduled for December 8-13, this year, is aimed at promoting knowledge and patronage of heritage sites in Ghana.
At a press launch in Accra on Tuesday, the Director for Sales and Marketing at GCGL, Miss Shirley Acquah-Harrison, said Ghana had a lot of exciting tourist attraction sites but little attention was given to these sites.
She said tourism, which could be a good source of income generation and employment, had been neglected.
“This week is to enlighten Ghanaians on the numerous tourist centres nationwide and encourage people to patronise them. We are looking forward to promoting internal tourism as well as educate the general public on the different histories and stories behind these sites,” she said.
Sites to be visited during the week include Shai hills, Krobo caves, Tegbi, caves of Leklebi, Sogakope, Cape Coast, Elmina, the Cocoa Research Institute and Kakum National park.
Others are the W.E.B. Dubois centre for Pan African Culture, the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, James Town light house and the Black Star square.
A street carnival at the Oxford street in Osu would be used to climax the events.
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