Accra, Sept. 21, GNA -
Mr Charles Osei-Bonsu, Deputy Executive Director in-charge of Finance and Administration at the Ghana Tourist Board, on Friday said the Board would start monitoring activities of hotel operators to ensure high standards and quality service.
He said staff of the board would pay unannounced visits to hotels and other hospitality facilities to assess if they were operating according to standards.
Where the operators were not doing well, GTB would invite them and advise them accordingly, Mr Osei-Bonsu said at the end of a three-day training programme organized by the Board for hotel managers with support from the International Finance Corporation to build and enhance their capacities.
"We will also bridge the communication gap between the GTB and hotel operators by occasionally sending information about arrivals, tourists' comments and many others to enable operators to know what was happening in the industry at any point in time."
Mr Osei Bonsu noted that hotel management was about practice, competency and skills saying
"theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind".
He said the tourism industry in Ghana was growing in an environment where there was peace, democracy and stable government and urged them not to take things for granted.
Mrs Stella Appenteng, President of the Ghana Tourism Federation, stressed the need for the participants to put into practice what had been taught.
She reminded them of the CAN 2008 football event and urged them to prepare for it since it was a tourism event. Mr George Amedzi, the class prefect, said the training had been successful.
The 28 participants were educated
on
"Facility Management",
"Having a Positive Attitude Towards Work",
"Basic Accounting",
"Front Office",
"Food and Beverage"
and
"Housekeeping".
Source:
GNA
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80,604 Women
in Ashanti Employed
in the Tourism sector
Kumasi, Sept 21, GNA -
Mr Ekwow Sampson, acting Ashanti Regional Manager
of the Ghana Tourist Board (GTB),
has said 80,604 women were employed in the tourism sector in the region last year.
He said the figure represented 44 per cent of the total
that stands at 497,129 people employed in the sector nationwide within the same period.
He said women who were employed engaged mostly
in the arts, craft, and hotel and catering sectors of the tourism industry.
Mr. Sampson was speaking at a symposium organized
by the GTB for identifiable women groups in the region
in Kumasi on Thursday.
The event formed part of activities marking this year's Tourism Day held on the theme,
"Tourism opens doors for women"
He said it was heart warming that most women were getting employed in the tourism sector and that
last year's figure showed a significant increase over almost the 75,000 women employed in the sector
in 2005.
He appealed to the banks and other financial
institutions to support women entrepreneurs in the
tourism industry.
Mr. Samuel Adjei, Director for the Centre for National culture (CNC) in Kumasi, urged women entrepreneurs
to continually upgrade their knowledge to boost their contribution to the development of tourism.
Source:
GNA
