{"id":484960,"date":"2025-10-09T06:26:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484960\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:26:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:26:23","slug":"tourism-is-ghanas-biggest-economic-sector-professor-kobby-mensah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484960\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourism is Ghana&#8217;s biggest economic sector \u2013 Professor Kobby Mensah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/television\/news\/Professor-Kobby-Mensah-highlights-tourism-as-key-driver-of-Ghana-s-economic-growth-135568\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20868527.295.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Kobby Mensah is the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Development Company Limited\" title=\"Professor Kobby Mensah is the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Development Company Limited\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\" \/> play video<\/a>Professor Kobby Mensah is the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Development Company Limited<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Development Company Limited, Professor Kobby Mensah, has stated that tourism and hospitality form the largest sector of Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media at an event in Accra, Professor Mensah described the tourism sector as &#8220;multi-diverse,&#8221; highlighting its integration with other essential services such as healthcare, telecommunications, and financial services, all of which are required not only by citizens but also by tourists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/entertainment\/Tourism-Agency-to-boost-sector-with-Market-Place-initiative-2004203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tourism Agency to boost sector with \u2018Market Place\u2019 initiative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to look at how big the sector is, you&#8217;d want to look at the needs of the citizens and compare it to the needs of the citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe citizens needs healthcare, financial products and telecommunications and that is exactly what the tourists needs,&#8221; He stated, adding that the livelihood of citizens are a replica of tourism.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised the need for Ghanaians to recognise the immense economic potential of the tourism and hospitality industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the biggest sector in every economy and we don&#8217;t seem to grasp it and come to that appreciation and know that it is bigger than what we are offering now,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Kobby Mensah also encouraged Ghanaians to embrace the Black Star Experience, a campaign designed to promote Ghana\u2019s cultural identity and tourism appeal, especially during festive seasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to upscale our efforts to bring that totality of our services. Financial,  telcos, accommodation and travel which are incidental to tourism&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>PAT\/EB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"play videoProfessor Kobby Mensah is the CEO of the Ghana Tourism Development Company Limited The Chief Executive Officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484960","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342789061672074","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}