"The paragliding festival has become one of the main pillars of the celebration of Easter in Kwahu. Over the past 15 years, the Odweanoma mountain has been home to several exciting paragliding flights. Since 2017, when we expanded the take off point to allow up to four take-offs at a time, the flights per day [...]

The official unveiling of the ‘Beyond the Return’ Pillars took place at the National Theatre on 9th September 2020.  ‘Beyond the Return’ is a 10-year project with the theme, ‘A Decade of African Renaissance’ and its foundation is built on the seven core pillars which were unveiled during  the event which was filled with a [...]

As part of Emancipation Day celebrations and the Give Back Ghana program for Beyond the Return, a team from Ghana Tourism Authority and the Beyond the Return Secretariat participated in a tree planting activity in Assin Praso in Ghana’s Central Region. Over 100 trees were planted along the path that leads to a historical site [...]

Rep. John Robert Lewis, was a civil rights icon who worked alongside some of the greatest black leaders in history.  He spent a lifetime in the fight for equality for black people in America having worked alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and countless others.  In 2011, he was given the Presidential Medal of [...]

Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA) in collaboration with the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL) have launched the Emancipation Day celebrations and “Do Ghana” Travel Festival at the Accra Tourism Information Centre (ATIC) in Accra to kick-start activities lined up for this year’s programme. The celebration, on the theme: “Our Heritage, Our Strength, with a sub-theme: ‘Leveraging [...]

Nearly 100 people joined the Virtual Launch for PANAFEST 2021 on a Zoom Conference led by Rabbi Kohian, Executive Director for PANAFEST Foundation and Professor Esi Sutherland-Addy, Chairperson for the PANAFEST Foundation.  The festival was officially launched and is set to take place 23rd July – 3rd August 2021 under the theme, ‘Securing the African [...]

GETP & GTDP Covid Response Grant Project Background Government is implementing the COVID-19 Response Grant Programme as part of the World Bank Funded Ghana Economic Transformation Project (GETP) and the Ghana Tourism Development Project (GTDP). These two World Bank Funded initiatives seek to respectively, promote private investments and firm growth in non-resource-based sectors as well [...]

Digya National Park which can be located at the Sene East District offers an unforgettable experience to interested tourists. This National Park is recommended for adventurous tourists since its accessibility proves to be a bit difficult. The park covers an area of 3,475km of undulating terrain with sandstone inselbergs. Lying on the Western border of […]

About Bono East The Bono East Region is a new region carved out of the then Brong Ahafo Region. The capital of the new region is Techiman. Bono East covers a land area of 22,952 square kilometers and has a population size of about One (1) million people. Tourist Sites / Attractions The Bono East […]

The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Barbara Oteng-Gyasi has inaugurated a Cross-Sectional Steering Committee to work with the Ghana Tourism Authority in the implementation of the “Beyond the Return” project. ‘BEYOND THE RETURN’ is a follow-up to the successful ‘YEAR OF RETURN, GHANA 2019’ campaign which commemorated the 400 years of the first enslaved [...]