W/Africa’s biggest tree made attractive tourist site

“We expect to get more dollars coming in into the local economy, create jobs and empower the people.” The sector minister was hopeful the domestic tourism drive would see a targeted one million citizens move around tourist sites in the country every year to make tourism a number one contributor to the nation’s GDP.

The Tourism Minister charged theGhana Tourism Development Companyand the Ghana Tourism Authority to ensure that about 3,000 tourists do visit the Big Tree Tourism Site within one year to generate an estimated 250 jobs for locals.

The Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture, Mohammed Awal, is hopeful the redeveloped site would entice more tourists in the domestic tourism drive to have one million citizens move around tourism centres each year.

In 2020, theGhana Tourism Development Company(GTDC) embarked on a mission to develop the tourism site to an appreciable industry standard with support from other stakeholders – Ghana Tourism Authority, Forestry Commission, Asene Manso Akroso District Assembly, Member of Parliament and Traditional Authorities in the Area.

“The Phase 2 would involve a canopy walk, fuel station and other new additions.” Funding for the redeveloped tourism site was spearheaded by GTDC with support from the GTA and other partners.

We hope to see producers of good quality local caterers come in to prepare food for tourists.” He gave details of Phase 2 of the project at the Big Tree tourism site which is expected to commence soon.

But while we focus on agriculture, trade, commerce, construction and other economic activities, we have no doubt that as a government tourism has the potential to engineer the growth we seek.” The Chief of Manso, Obrempong Sintim Poku, who doubles as the Bankumhene of Akyem Kotoku, commended government for redeveloping the edifice and asked the responsible authorities to put measures in place to stop encroachers from the forest reserve..

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