According to the Government Statistician, Professor Samuel Annim, Ghana is expected to generate more than $1.5 billion from tourist arrivals by 2027.
Based on the 15-Year National Tourism Development Plan (2013–2027), this projection is anticipated to close the employment gap in the nation by adding nearly 1.4 million new jobs for residents.
Professor Annim stated that the goal of this year’s Domestic and Outbound Tourism Survey (DOTS) is to compile the Tourism Satellite Account, which will be the foundation for computing the sector’s information for national development for three years.
The survey was launched on Monday (April 17, 2023) at Winneba in the Central region.
The survey will start on April 19, 2023, and is financed by Harmonizing and Improving Statistics in West Africa.
The professor emphasized the significance of monitoring the potential sector for the nation in order for decision-makers and complete mapping to be possible.
He further stated that the country’s Ministries and Agencies’ policies are being profiled by the Statistical Service to guarantee that there are clear goals for quality data.
Professor Kwaku Boakye, Chairman of the Technical Team for the Survey, stated in his remarks that governments had continued to invest in and research strategies to optimize the sector’s advantages, showing that they had not overlooked the growth of tourism.
According to the UN World Tourism Organization, the industry brought in $1.7 trillion in revenue and employed one in ten people worldwide in 2019.
The survey’s coordinator, Dr. Ebenezer Kojo Ocran, reported that 220 people in total had been enlisted for the survey’s training.
Concepts and definitions, administering surveys, and other topics are all addressed by the survey instruments.
The Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian residents of Ghana are the subjects of the Domestic and Outbound tourist Survey, which entails gathering, compiling, evaluating, and distributing tourist data on them.
As the government worked to put the current 15-year Tourism Development Plan (2013-2027) and other policy papers into practice, Professor Annim counseled field officers to be enthusiastic about their profession and generate trustworthy data for decision-making.
