Hohoe, (V/R), Nov. 26, GNA-Mr Corjon Van der Haat,
Senior Tourism Advisor of the Netherlands
Development Organization (SNV), has stated the need
for all activities around tourism related parks to
promote mutually beneficial relationships between
the parks and stakeholders in those areas.
Mr Haat made the point at a two-day joint workshop
for identifiable groups from Ghana and Togo to draw
a tourism development plan for the Kyabobo National
Park in Ghana and its counterpart Fazao-Malfakassa
in Togo.
Those who attended included chiefs, tour and
transport operators, security officials, Ghana
Tourist Board, hotel and restaurant operators,
wildlife officers and community members.
Mr. Haat said the development of park related
tourism must include the protection and enhancement
of natural resources around those parks.
He warned that ethnic, chieftaincy and land disputes
hurt tourism.
Mr Haat said the Kyabobo National Park was yet to
attract the attention of United Nations World
Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Step programme because
it was yet to come into the limelight.
He said the UNWTO, which is a multi-destination
marketing programme covers Niger, Mali, Burkina
Faso, Ghana Benin and Togo.
Mr Joseph Denteh, District Chief Executive for
Nkwanta said, in addition to the Kyabobo National
Park and Fazao-Malfakassa, the area has other
tourism attractions such as mountains, waterfalls,
climate and rivers, which needed to be developed.
He drew the workshop's attention to the need for
hotels of international standard, safari lodges and
camps and recreational infrastructure and
restaurants and car rentals along tourist routes in
the area.
Mr Denteh said plans were far advanced to construct
the Brewniase-Nkwanta-Damanko trunk road to ease
traveling in the area.
GNA
