The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture and the Ghana Tourism Authority will spearhead the celebration of this year’s World Tourism Day at Kwahu in the Eastern Region.
The World Tourism Day is a day set aside by the United Nations (UN) to celebrate tourism annually by member countries across the world on the 27th September.
The celebration is used to highlight the potential of tourism as a valuable source of livelihood for millions of people among the member countries.
This year’s celebration is under the theme “Tourism and the Digital Transformation”.
A press release by the Corporate Affairs Manager of the GTA, Felicia Aniagyei (Ms) said in Ghana, the national celebration will be held in Kwahu and will be followed immediately with a corporate Paragliding Festival dubbed Fun and Fly.
The three-day event from Friday, 28th September to 30th September will be held at the usual Odweanoma Mountain at Kwahu, Atibie where seven international tandem pilots from the USA, Switzerland and India will fly passengers during the event.
Also Flying solo are two Ghanaian pilots namely, Michael Kwakye based in Switzerland and Jonathan Quaye.
The programme of activities for the celebration of the World Tourism Day on the 27th September includes a symposium at the Presbyterian University, Abetifi, Kwahu and a durbar of chiefs at Abetifi Palace.
The event will also see the commissioning of the newly constructed food court prior to the paragliding.
The Ghana Cyclist Association is also partnering GTA to organise a “king of the Mountain” competition between cyclist from Ghana, Coted’ Ivoire, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Burkina Faso.