‘Invest in tourist sites’
The Deputy Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Ms Dzifa Gomashie, has called on district assemblies to consider investment in tourist sites in their jurisdictions so as to generate revenue and to give true meaning to the decentralisation process.
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She said tourist attractions were treasures which must not be taken for granted and stressed the need for district assemblies to team up with experts in the areas where tourist attractions were located to come up with worthy proposals for projects to attract revenue.
Ms Gomashie was addressing separate meetings at Adaklu Kpatove and Helekpe after inspecting tourism projects initiated by a non-governmental organisation, Help Our Village Foundation, at Adaklu in the Volta Region.
Adaklu mountain resort
She particularly memtioned the Adaklu mountain at Helekpe, which is an outstanding tourism facility but has remained under-utilised. She, therefore, called on all progressive forces in the area to wake up to end the state of under-utilisation.
Ms Gomashie noted that the Volta Region was blessed with several natural tourist attractions which needed to be harnessed and promoted to create jobs for the rural folk to reverse rural-urban migration.
She said the mountain resort should be projected with innovations applied to it in order for it to become a dependable livelihood for the people.
“Every community has something they want to project,” she stated.
Help Our Village Foundation projects
The Director of Help Our Village Foundation, Ms Love Akos Kpedekpo, said the foundation had opened a channel for rural development in the area, adding that several tourists had visited the area to participate in voluntary projects towards the construction of school projects.
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According to her, the foundation had opened two creches at Kpatove and Abuadi and would ensure that more injections were made towards the improvement of education in the area.
The Chief of Kpatove, Togbe Dade IV, lamented that although the area was endowed with a lot of natural resources and its people voted massively for the government, there was no government project to show for their performance.
He said with the introduction of the tourism project, the community had opened up to public-private partnership for a Junior High School block under construction with the help of some foreign volunteers.