A GH¢177,000 tourist facility to provide conducive resting environment for tourists visiting the Tini Waterfalls and other tourist sites in the Atiwa District in the Eastern Region has been inaugurated.
The Adasawase Tourist Receptive facility, funded by the government through the Ghana Tourist Board, has an office, a museum, a souvenir shop, a snack bar and facilities including washrooms for the physically challenged.
The project, the second of its kind to be inaugurated in the country, will serve as a one-stop shop where tourists would be able to access information on tourist attractions and investment opportunities and enjoy local dishes in the Atiwa District in particular and the Eastern Region in general.
In address at the inaugural ceremony at Adasawase, the Minister of Tourism, Mrs Sabah Zita Okaikoi, said the project formed part of efforts by the government to improve domestic tourism and the patronage of tourist sites in the Eastern Region.
She said tourism had the capacity to create more jobs and income opportunities for the people and contribute to the better Ghana agenda promised by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.
She, therefore, expressed the hope that stakeholders, including municipal and district assemblies, would join hands and help attract tourism investment into the region.
The minister hinted that the EREDEC Hotel in Koforidua, which has been on divestiture for many years, would soon be rehabilitated and “put on the market for use by tourists who will visit the Eastern Region”.
Mrs Okaikoi, who announced that her ministry would partner private investors to construct 20 more rest stops nationwide, gave an assurance that the road leading to the Adasawase Tourist Receptive facility would soon be given on contract to be reconstructed to facilitate movement to tourist sites in the Atiwa District.
The Eastern Regional Minister, Mr Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, said since the district was endowed with abundant natural resources, the district assembly must work with the chiefs and the people to plant trees to preserve water bodies and the environment.
Earlier, the chief of Adasawase, Osabarima Kwame Tia, thanked the government for constructing the facility in the community but appealed for the road leading to the facility to be constructed to make it useable by motorists.
He also expressed worry over the activities of illegal chainsaw operators in the community and called on the government to help tackle the situation.
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