Kumasi — The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Tradition, (MOTAC) has organised a tourism-oriented coaching programme for some chosen taxi drivers within the Kumasi metropolis. With assist from the Ghana Tourism Improvement Firm (GTDC) and the Ghana Tourism Improvement Challenge (GTDP), the day's coaching was designed to switch crucial details about tourism to the drivers …
Kumasi — The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Tradition, (MOTAC) has organised a tourism-oriented coaching programme for some chosen taxi drivers within the Kumasi metropolis.
With assist from the Ghana Tourism Improvement Firm (GTDC) and the Ghana Tourism Improvement Challenge (GTDP), the day’s coaching was designed to switch crucial details about tourism to the drivers amongst others.
It addressed the low stage of appreciation of the important thing function drivers’ play within the tourism eco-system.
It additionally used to debate considerations by vacationers in regards to the lack of consumers’ service within the supply of companies by some transport operators within the nation.
About 100 taxi drivers drawn from numerous Taxi Unions equivalent to Abuakwa, Ayigya, and KNUST attended the coaching programme.
Deputy Minister of the MOTAC, Mr Mark Okraku Mantey, addressing the assembly claimed that there had been incidents the place taxi drivers had sadly been unfairly portraying the nation in a adverse mild.
In line with the Deputy Minister, the federal government was poised to advertise tourism within the nation and that taxi drivers had been key stakeholders, therefore coaching them was very important.
“… So allow us to make one of the best out of it, each particular person within the worth chain must be aligned with the President’s imaginative and prescient to make tourism the primary contributor to the nation’s gross home product,” he emphasised.
He instructed them of the significance of tourism as an vital supply of nationwide revenue and job creation.
About 3,000 taxi drivers, he stated would bear the particular coaching programme dubbed, “Tourism Product Information Coaching for Transport Service Suppliers.”
The Chief Govt Officer of the GTDC, Mr Kwadwo Antwi, thanked the drivers for his or her enthusiasm to make the programme successful.
Mr Kwadwo Asante, Chairman of the Hiatopre Drivers Union, was filled with reward for the MOTAC for the coaching.
He stated “since I began driving taxi in 1980, I’ve not attended such a coaching programme, that is the primary time and I thank the federal government.”
Every of them took residence tourism branded T-shirts, certificates and driver’s tourism brochure.
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