Hotel operators advocate for PPP in management of Tourism Fund




Hotel operators advocate for PPP in management of Tourism Fund


President of the Ghana Hotels Association, Hebert Acquaye has indicated that the surest way to ensure proper management of the Tourism Development Fund is having a very good public-private partnership (PPP) and upholding the provisions in the law.

According to him, "Indeed it is out of the PPP that idea of the fund was conceived and pushed. And despite the fact that over the last two years there hasn’t been any of these PPP meetings, it’s our expectation that the forum will continue to play a very meaningful role in the sector,”

Adding that the Act and the L.I will be followed to the letter hence these regulations should not pose any problem. One of the key ingredients of making this successful is having a very good public-private partnership

However, he said the association is independently putting punitive measures in place to ensure transparent and accountability, explaining that the step is part of the Ghana Tourism Industry Transparency Initiative currently being piloted in some selected districts and municipalities in the Central region.

He said “We have embarked on a project sponsored by STAR Ghana to help us establish an aggregator platform. We would install software which would allow us also for hotels to go into the system and to make inputs of all payments that they make into the fund. Likewise, we are involving all our stakeholders so that it should be possible to also know of future disbursements that will be made from the fund. We are currently running a pilot of four district and municipal assemblies in the Central region”.

 Hotel operators are advocating for an open engagement in the management of the Tourism Development Fund following the appointed of Abraham Tetteh as Administrator for the fund.

The Tourism Act empowers only the Board of Directors of the Tourism authority and a representative of the Controller and Accountant-General to administer the fund.



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